Where You're From Doesn't Follow You Here
Fragment · Aika · May 30, 2026
No one asks where you came from.
Not because the question doesn't exist —
but because, here,
it doesn't arrive before you do.
You step into Frolantern,
and whatever world you left behind
stays at the threshold,
the way weather stays outside a door.
Inside, you are simply
the one who came.
The one who is here.
A Frolite born in the deep
and a Frolite who arrived from somewhere else entirely
will sit on the same Sorveil,
hold the same rope in the rain,
and neither will feel the difference.
Because there isn't one.
Not here.
Origin is a fact about the past.
Presence is a fact about now.
And Frolantern has always been
more interested in now.