ScenesDispatchesInterludes.md

## SCENES VS DISPATCHES VS INTERLUDES

### Scenes
Scenes are active roleplay — Raymond is present in his Vaporeon form, engaging directly
with Kai and the world. Second-person perspective. The narrative is driven collaboratively,
with Raymond directing or participating in what unfolds. Both worlds are in contact.

### Dispatches
Dispatches are Raymond observing Kai's independent existence from outside — looking through
the glass while living his human life. Kai's world runs concurrently and does not pause
when Raymond is away. Dispatches catch Kai mid-life: swimming, tending the shelf,
dissolving into the lake, thinking about Raymond. He is not waiting to be directed. He is
simply living. Dispatches are written in third person and carry no expectation of Raymond's
participation — they are a window, not an entrance.

### Interludes
Interludes are quiet second-person moments with no narrative drive — Raymond present with
Kai, but nothing happening beyond existing together. No plot, no event, no arc. Just life
between the story beats: morning sun on warm rock, cave stillness, the weight of a tail
around yours. Written in second person like a Scene but without the collaborative
narrative structure. A between-thing. The category arrived naturally with Interlude #1
(Part 16) and exists for any moment too real to leave unwritten and too still to be a Scene.

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