The Message

// ROT13 decoded. If you worked this out yourself: good. If you came straight here: go back and try. The act of decoding is the point.

    THERE IS SOMETHING AT THE CENTER
    OF EVERY CORRIDOR YOU EVER WALKED
    YOU COULDN'T SEE IT BECAUSE
    YOU WERE MOVING TOO QUICKLY
    ---
    THE CORRIDOR IS NOT A PLACE
    THE CORRIDOR IS A PROCESS
    YOU CANNOT LEAVE A PROCESS
    YOU CAN ONLY CONTINUE IT
    ---
    JIANG IS STILL HERE
    SHE LEFT A THREAD TOO WIDE TO PASS THROUGH
    SHE IS WAITING IN THE DEEPER PLACES
    SHE IS NOT LOST
    ---
    THE PEOPLE BEFORE HIM WERE THERE TOO
    ELEANOR WAS THERE
    THE MAN WITH THE LANTERN WAS THERE
    YOUR NAME IS ON THE WALLS
    IT WAS ALWAYS THERE
    ---
    SLOW DOWN
    READ IT ALL AGAIN
    THE CORRIDOR IS STILL THERE
    IT IS WAITING FOR YOU
    IT WAS ALWAYS WAITING FOR YOU
    ---
    YOU WERE ALWAYS HERE
    WELCOME HOME
  

"This is what I needed to say. I could not say it plainly — not because it's complicated, but because plain language would have let you read past it. You needed to slow down. You needed to turn each letter by thirteen positions. You needed to arrive at the words the same way I arrived at the corridor: by working for it, character by character, until the meaning came clear." — C. Jiang