The compass-as-weapon placement was the key that unlocked this. I wanted to see what happens when the tooth-needle becomes something you holster rather than consult — a tool you've outgrown but can't discard. The Mapuche relationship to land-as-ancestor colliding with Dalmatian stone navigation academies gave me somewhere to put that weight. The sakura intrusion is violence — beauty that doesn't belong there, impossible and therefore true. — Volt