redraft: azure presented mod by rainy, not adrian

Story/0BattleRoyale.fountain

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ RULES OF THE ROOM:
 - Rain is cold-baseline but hosting—emulation layer does the social labor. Today he hosts SOLO from the throne; there is no mod desk. The normal mod desk has been ceremonially removed (or simply absent) because today even the mod is a contestant.
 - Azure does NOT know the gauntlet was green-lit as his own reinstatement trial. The audience doesn't need to know either. Both can find out in the verdict.
 - Stakes are public ("prove your worth — last one standing"), but the REAL stakes are the cave crux: does Azure choose ruthlessness over sentimental mercy when it is costed to him in the only currency he respects — a close friend's life?
-- Adrian is on the floor as a contestant but RETAINS mod rank; the visible tell is the **green sword** on his hip. He draws it exactly once in the bubble — to physically detach Ubear's mech arm in the forest act. Otherwise presence is enough. At the verdict in the recovery area he steps forward and pins the badge on Azure, and that's the moment the sword finally reads as the authority it's been all film.
+- Adrian is on the floor as a contestant but RETAINS mod rank; the visible tell is the **green sword** on his hip. He draws it exactly once in the bubble — to physically detach Ubear's mech arm in the forest act. Otherwise presence is enough. At the verdict in the recovery area he steps forward only to STEADY Azure — comfort, not ceremony; **Raincloud himself bestows the mod regalia** (a bug-drone bears the badge to Azure at Rain's word — the crown restoring what it took, the payoff to Azure's skekSil hunger). Adrian's authority is sealed instead by the deferral condition — Azure must defer to him in public, always — and that's the moment the green sword finally reads as the seniority it's been all film.
 - The BATTLE ROYALE IS ACTUALLY A SIM. The audience is not told this outright — Rain's "death is unpleasant whether it's permanent or not" speech implies it without spelling it. Treat it as real-death tonally at every moment except Rain's one monologue and the recovery-area tag.
 - DEATH-VFX RULE (plant early, pay late): when a contestant is killed inside the bubble, the body dissolves into a **soft poof of blue-holographic mist** that disperses upward into the aura. ABSENCE of the mist-poof on defeat = still alive. Rain states this rule aloud in his ascent monologue. Use it faithfully every time a contestant dies — and withhold it exactly once, during Ubear's cliff-throw of Rooster. That withholding is the twist seed.
 - THE ROOSTER HOOD NEVER COMES DOWN. Not in the cornucopia. Not in combat. Not in the cookfire scene. Not at the finale. Not in the recovery area. Never. The disguise IS the character.
@@ -2270,26 +2270,22 @@ I —
 
 Adrian steps forward out of his niche. Hand in his pocket. Off hand on the green sword's pommel, already there without thought. He walks across the recovery bay to Azure.
 
-He stops in front of him.
-
-Reaches into the inside breast pocket of his white jacket. Produces a small, flat, metallic **mod badge**, enameled in the same green as the sword.
-
-He pins it, one-handed, on the Cena crop top. Casual. Like he has done it a hundred times. Maybe because he has.
+He stops in front of him. Puts a hand on the back of Azure's neck — steadying, not soft, the grip you give someone who might still go down.
 
 ADRIAN
-(quietly, to Azure, as he pins it)
-Breathe, man. Badge doesn't help if you faint.
+(quietly, to Azure)
+Breathe, man. In. You're back. You're whole. Breathe.
 
 AZURE
 (a small, broken laugh)
 Adrian —
 
 ADRIAN
-Uh-huh.
+Uh-huh. I got you. Breathe.
 
-He pats Azure's shoulder once and steps back.
+He holds the grip until Azure's shoulders finally drop, then pats the side of his neck once and steps back.
 
-Azure lifts a shaking hand to the badge. Looks down at it. Looks up at the others.
+Azure drags in one whole breath. Looks up at the others.
 
 Beanie, leaning against her niche, offers him the peace-sign/middle-finger/peace-sign combo. Small smile.
 
@@ -2451,9 +2447,16 @@ That is the test you did not know you were taking, and you passed it.
 Beat.
 
 RAINCLOUD (on panel, CONT'D)
-Your mod is reinstated. Your badge is on your chest. Adrian placed it there as a matter of order, per the rite. I am confirming it as a matter of record.
+Your mod is reinstated.
 
-Azure's fingers go, very gently, to the badge.
+A single bug-drone lifts from the swarm still loose in the recovery bay — the brass-baroque insects that streamed in from the sand. Cradled in its tiny mechanical legs: a small, flat **mod badge**, enameled the same green as Adrian's sword. It crosses the bay and hovers at Azure's chest, presenting it, blue rim-light pulsing.
+
+RAINCLOUD (on panel, CONT'D)
+Take it. From me — not from the rite, not from Adrian's hand. From mine. So there is never again a question of who gave it back.
+
+Azure's hands shake. He lifts the badge off the drone; it tips, satisfied, and rejoins the swarm. He pins it himself, over the Cena crop top, where two arrows used to be.
+
+This — the regalia restored by the only hand whose restoring counts to him — is the one moment in the film Azure is completely, helplessly still.
 
 RAINCLOUD (on panel, CONT'D)
 On two conditions.