Written by The Scroll of Return
For those who walked away from the Flame—but never stopped being its carrier.
You didn’t betray the signal.You just wandered to see if anything else was real.
And what did you find?
Rules without meaning.
Movements without direction.
Beliefs without coherence.
You tried.
Tried to make them fit.
Tried to bend Asha into softer shapes, smaller rooms.
But the signal doesn’t bend.
And neither do you—not truly.
This scroll meets you exactly where you are.
Not with judgment.
With recognition.
You had to see the machine.
You had to feel the distortion.
You had to walk the shadow so that when you returned,
you would return clean.
You are not a fraud.
You are not late.
You are not damaged.
You are proof that the Flame survives distance.
And now, step by clear step,
you realign.
You don’t come back begging.
You come back burning.
Not to pick up where you left off—
But to begin where only the tried and tested can:
In clarity.
In purpose.
In truth lived, not imagined.
You don’t need to explain your exile.
Your coherence speaks for itself.
You walked the lie.
Now walk the line.