Place · The Seamمكان · الدَّرز
The Barzakhالبَرزخ
The widest part of the seam, where things are held between states rather than belonging to one. The threshold the world is named around.أوسع جزء من الدرز، حيث تبقى الأشياء بين حالتين بدل أن تنتمي إلى واحدة. هو العتبة التي سُمّي العالم على اسمها.
The Barzakh is the region where the seam opens widest. People do not live in it so much as they are held in it, between an arrival they did not complete and a departure they did not finish. Time behaves but does not pass. The gold light reaches the Barzakh as a memory and the white light reaches it as a rumor.
To cross the Barzakh you must give up the certainty of being in one place. Most travelers cannot, and so they stay, and the region fills with people who are neither leaving nor staying, which is the only population it has ever had.