—We don't really have a custom of keeping records over here.

Hmm. Perhaps everyone who comes here just melds into this silence.

Could be. The traces they leave behind become the model for the art.

That's what I was told by the person who first invited me.

What were they like?

Oh, yes. That would be Grandmother.

Grandmother!?

We're not actually related, though.

I met her a long time ago, when I was wandering.

I was on a journey as part of my training.

Hee...?

Let me tell you, I was real surprised. I was pulled in basically the moment our eyes met.