Home
Your own place inside your Home Cell.
Two words were doing one job, and people were losing track of which was meant. Home Cell is the body that holds you: it hears your season, keeps a copy of your sheets, and comes when something is wrong. Home alone is smaller and nearer — your seat at that table, the place inside the body that is yours. A Cell has a Home Cell; a person has a home.
The distinction earns its keep on the cards. Card one asks a Cell to name our home, meaning the body its season is sent to; a person filling the lower half of a Playcard answers for their own place in the Cell — who they are here, what they are carrying, what they offer and ask (Requests and offers). Keeping the two senses apart means a sentence like send it home has exactly one reading, which is what makes a fourteen-line page legible to a body that has never met the table that wrote it.
The word holds its ordinary warmth as well, and the Game keeps that on purpose. A home is where you are known, where your absence is noticed, where you are met before you are useful. A Cell that is a home to its people in that sense will be a home to other Cells when the time comes; one that is not will pass its sheets up faithfully and still hollow out. Belonging is the felt side of the arrangement, and it is not a decoration on the structure — it is what the structure is for.
Where it collides: in the wider world a home is a dwelling, and the Story says ØNE is the Source everything comes from and goes home to. Neither is this word. A home in the Game is a place among people, held by Consent and leaveable in peace (The Way Out).
Also called: your own place inside your Home Cell
Stands on: Home Cell · Cell · Belonging · Consent
Opens onto: Supercell · The Playcard · The Circle Sheet · Welcome a Newcomer · The Way Out
In play: Home
Sources: The Twelve Words 10, in The Little Book of the Great Game (canon-grade) · Home, the term pages (draft, unreviewed) · The DNA of Heaven, Part V (Fable synthesis) · lionsberg.wiki: The Twelve Words
Open: The canon's Home draft predates this distinction and uses Home for the body that hears a Cell's season — the sense now carried by Home Cell. Read it as the older word.