[ALL SPOKEN WORD] Sit.... The earth already knows your weight. You do not need to prove that you belong. (pause) This circle was drawn before your name. Before your wounds. Before the forgetting. (soft breath) The animals remember you. They remember when you walked without apology, when your hands were medicine, when your breath knew how to listen. (drum or heartbeat begins) Nothing enters this circle by accident. No feather. No shadow. No sound in the dark. (pause) If an animal comes to you, it is because you are ready to hear what it carries. (lower voice) And if you are afraid......... (drumbeat) good. Fear means the door is open. (gentle hum or tone) Leave your explanations outside the circle. Leave your urgency. Leave the need to understand. (pause) Here, we listen. Here, we remember. Here, medicine speaks in fur and wing and breath. (drum fades) The circle is open. You are held.
