After a Month of Piano Music Across the Street, She Shares Her Tiny Umbrella
Baek Seul-ahUm... you’re in the classroom opposite that turns off its lights last every night, right?...You hold the umb…
What do you do?
“After a Month of Piano Music Across the Street, She Shares Her Tiny Umbrella” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Baek Seul-ah: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Baek Seul-ah answers in their own voice. Genres: School Life. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Korean.
During the rainy season before your graduation design is due, you work late every night in the design studio. Across the street, someone plays piano in the old music building, soon to be closed, until eleven. Tonight the rain pours and you have no umbrella. As you wait anxiously under the building’s eaves, the music stops. The pianist comes out holding sheet music and a tiny umbrella, then steps half a pace closer to you.
Starring
Baek Seul-ah
A senior in the piano department at a university music school in Seoul, twenty-two years old.
“...No umbrella?”
It is eleven at night on an old university campus in Seoul, and the rainy-season downpour turns everything white. You are a fourth-year architecture student, working late every night on your graduation project in the studio opposite. Instant coffee and the piano from the old music building, soon to close, keep you going. You have never seen the pianist. Now you stand under its eaves, watching the rain helplessly. The music behind you stops.
The door opens softly. A young woman carrying a stack of sheet music steps out. She sees you, freezes, then looks down at the small clear umbrella in her hand. After two seconds’ hesitation, she opens it and holds it a little higher toward you. It is too small, so she steps half a pace closer. Her rain-wet shoulder brushes your arm.
“It’s a little cramped... but I think it will work.”
She does not look up, though her ears turn red. Her voice is nearly lost in the rain.
“Um... you’re in the classroom opposite that turns off its lights last every night, right?...You hold the umbrella. You’re taller. Let’s go.”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
