🌸 The Merge — seat another flower

The flower is the whole forty-two in seed. The merge is its inverse: six whole flowers, one seated at each of your six roots. On the Map a merge mode opens six insert rings at the roots; each seats another player's captured flower.

Only the seam crosses

What crosses is only the A5 seam — { name, glyph, seal, κ, axisBitmask } — never the other game's interior forty-two. Your root holds a link to their sealed flower, by its κ. This is the fractal zoom-out: a board of boards, six whole games + you at the centre = the next magnification.

The seated roots reflect on the Territory — each carrying flower breathes brighter.

This respects the canon seam exactly (see Axioms A5): no integration reads a game's interior; only {seal, kappa, axisBitmask} cross between boards.

Welcome · the Game of 42 — six axes × seven stations = 42