They arrived in Valdenmoor on Sunday.
The Domain received them at the boundary — the same reception, the self-reinforcing honest architecture, the between-space present in the clean quality of the city's between-space running.
But fuller than when they had left.
He stood at the five-kilometer boundary for a moment.
Felt the difference.
The Domain had expanded again in the two weeks they had been away.
Not by boundary — the Domain's formal edge was still at five kilometers. The expansion was inward. Deeper. The between-space's quality within the Domain having increased in richness during the two weeks without a specific intervention producing the increase.
The virtuous cycle running while he was absent.
The honest participation sustaining the presence.
The presence deepening the honest participation.
The cycle producing more richness independently of any specific work.
He stood at the boundary and felt it.
His mother stopped beside him.
"Different," she said.
