MangoLive became a beacon. Travelers arrived with strange instruments and stranger accents; poets came to defend silence; bakers traded recipes with carpenters who swore wood could taste like cinnamon if stained by the right sunset. Some came with wounds; the tree offered shade and a taste of fruit that stitched edges together in ways no salve could. Children learned that if you whispered your wish to the trunk, sometimes the wind would carry it to the sea, and sometimes it would fall back, wrapped in a feather and a postcard from the person who needed it most.