// Compost acknowledgements — D-07 + GARD-04. Plan 02-03 authored content;
// Plan 02-04 ships the Ink runtime that consumes it.
//
// Phase 2 NOTE — UI WIRING DEFERRED TO PLAN 02-05:
// Plan 02-04 ships the Ink compile pipeline + runtime + LuraDialogue
// overlay. The compost-beat surface is a thinner toast variant (separate
// from the Lura full-screen overlay) and is folded into Plan 02-05's
// persistence-toast UI surface for minimum-viable-bias reasons documented
// in 02-04-SUMMARY.md.
//
// This file is rewritten in VAR-driven branch form (replacing Plan 02-03's
// choice-list shape) so it matches the runtime contract: one ChoosePathString
// → drip lines → END. The branching uses fragment_count to vary the line
// without requiring the runtime to expose Ink choice points.
//
// Tone (CLAUDE.md): the gardener-keeper voice, NOT Lura. Warm, specific,
// intermittent. Acknowledges the player's choice to let go without making
// it a moral. Never "it's okay." Never reassurance. Just the small fact
// of the choice, honored.

VAR fragment_count = 0

== compost ==

{ fragment_count == 0:
    The earth takes it back without comment.
- else:
  {
    - fragment_count % 5 == 0:
        Some things are tended into being. Others are tended into not being. Both count.
    - fragment_count % 4 == 0:
        It wasn't ready. That isn't the same as failing.
    - fragment_count % 3 == 0:
        The space the plant was in is now space. That's a kind of progress.
    - fragment_count % 2 == 0:
        It returns to the soil. Not poetry — just composting. Mostly.
    - else:
        You changed your mind. The garden has nothing to say about it.
  }
}

-> END