Chapter 20 — The Far Side Comes

STUB — to be drafted. POV: Arin (second Arin POV) · Location: the Tarn → around the dark gate.

Arin brings what he's made out into the world it never leaves; the loneliness of staying turned, at last, outward. The sibling approach from his side — staying revealed as its own kind of building. (Drafting note: Arin must not internally conceptualize what he's built as "the depth-web" or "the Stay-side half of the Relay" — that is outline shorthand only. He thinks in people, places, habits, names, weather, water, and messages; the naming is the reader's to do, at convergence.)

Carries: the Stay leg arriving as co-creator (not victim); Arin's vindication seeded. Withholds: the reunion's shape.