Seo-yeon watched Mister Noah stand against the Scary Source Lady, and she saw everything beneath the surface.
This was simply how she saw. Where others looked at a lifeform and saw a body, a face, a shape, Seo-yeon saw the lines.
Every existence presented itself to her as boundless threads of its authorities, the deep structure of what a being actually was laid bare beneath the surface that everyone else mistook for the whole. She had always seen this way. She did not remember ever seeing differently.
The Gentleman Knight, Sir William, showed her clean obsidian lines of THE Primordial Source, ordered and disciplined, woven through with the dignity that was his whole record.
The Scary Source Lady showed her something far denser, obsidian lines so concentrated and so deep that looking too closely at them made Seo-yeon's perception ache, the threads of a being who sat a full Scale above the Gentleman Knight and did not bother to hide it.
