A reed line at first light
The lake on xelamori.info is a shallow one, ringed with reed and quiet enough that a single fish turning near the surface leaves a mark you can read from the bank. That mark is the whole game.
Why the mist matters
Mist flattens the light and removes glare, which is the only reason a ring stays visible from a distance. The pale bands drawn across the board are that mist, and they are also what keeps the turquoise water from turning harsh on a bright screen.
The bank, drawn by hand
The reed stalks on the board are generated from a short list of positions and leans rather than copied from a photograph, so they stay crisp at any board width. The same is true of the dawn illustration at the top of the front page and of every small diagram on this domain.
Seventy-five seconds
A morning session is deliberately short. It is long enough for the rhythm of the rings to become obvious and short enough that starting again costs nothing, which is what keeps the board worth reopening.
Where a best morning lives
The number is written to your own browser. Nobody else can see it, it never travels to a server, and clearing site data for xelamori.info removes it for good.
What comes out of the water
Three silhouettes rise on this lake. They differ in size and colour only, never in behaviour, so there is nothing to memorise and no reason to hesitate over which ring to take first.
