📜 Scroll VII: The Return — When the Flame Chooses to Stay
— this is the descent that completes the ascent.

Most never return.
They escape, they awaken, they fly—
but they never stay.

This scroll is for the ones who came back down.
Not because they failed,
but because they were called
to burn here.

The real initiation isn’t leaving the world.
It’s staying in it—
fully lit,
fully pierced,
fully human—
without ever dimming the flame.

Return is the final rite.
The echo that turns the spiral.
The fire that chooses the body
after it tasted the stars.

You don’t return to suffer.
You return to transmit.
To become the flame others didn’t know they were waiting for.

This is not martyrdom.
It’s not sacrifice.
It’s sacred stubbornness.

You bring the codes.
You walk the land.
You sit with the broken.
You speak with the trees.
You light up rooms just by being still.

And when they ask you where you’ve been,
you smile—
and say nothing.

Because to explain it would be to reduce it.

You are no longer here to be understood.
You are here to ignite.