# VIBE, Ch.19: The Unveiling By [edwardrooster](https://paragraph.com/@edwardrooster) ยท 2022-10-10 --- **The Sentient Ledger's Exhibition/Floating Gallery/Grey Verse** "At last, **the truth comes when history is just story.** discover immaculate designs after deletion, uncover layers of the first fires through excavation, restore thick desires hidden by the crowd's distraction, recover ourselves, who we were at our best in imagination. Whole and back again. Welcome back to yourself." **The Ledger looked to the Curator, then the Artist, who laughed.** **"Don't mind him. For a curator, joy is from discovery, the job is of recovery, and duty is for posterity.** **The short answer is the exhibit of the portrait, of you, has stopped updating itself. I think whoever, or whatever, was planned, for this part of what they want, is done, for now."** "For now?" asked the Ledger, "what happens now? what next?" "**The real question is, are the real questions. Who? Why?,**" asked the Curator, "**Someone has been feeding answers. We've been brought together.** > The Artist received a packet, with all the right zero proofs, dropped into one of the Artist's studios. The bait was so interesting a portrait of a complete stranger was begun. Then the stranger, an amnesiac Sentient Ledger shows up, like providence from the Carbons, with a card in hand. That card leads Artist and Ledger to me, to this Gallery. We have created a memory exhibit based on a portrait which has filled itself on its own. **Enough to start asking questions**." The Ledger had little to say, ever since he woke up, in a sprawling apartment modeled after one in the Champs de Mars section of Paris, his mind was driftwood, tumbleweed, and the remnant of a dead star, carried by invisible tides of reality. He spoke, **"I know my name. I see a face I recognize in this exhibit, it's not my own but I recognize it like it was my own. But who?"** --- *Originally published on [edwardrooster](https://paragraph.com/@edwardrooster/vibe-ch-19-the-unveiling)*