.pillar-bento {
    position: relative;
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;
    gap: 20px;
}

.pillar-bento__line {
    position: absolute;
    inset: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    pointer-events: none;
    z-index: 1;
}

.pillar-bento__line path {
    fill: none;
    stroke: var(--accent-text);
    stroke-width: 1.5;
    stroke-linecap: round;
    stroke-linejoin: round;
}

.pillar-bento__line circle {
    fill: var(--accent);
    opacity: .25;
    transform-origin: center;
    transform: scale(.6);
    transition: opacity .35s ease, transform .35s ease;
}

.pillar-bento__line circle.is-active {
    opacity: 1;
    transform: scale(1);
}

.pillar-card {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 2;
    background: var(--paper);
    border: 1px solid var(--ink-faint);
    border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
    padding: 28px 26px 26px;
    overflow: hidden;
    transition: border-color .35s ease;
}

.pillar-card:hover,
.pillar-card.is-active {
    border-color: var(--accent);
}

.pillar-card__ghost {
    position: absolute;
    top: 8px;
    right: 16px;
    font-family: var(--font-display);
    font-weight: 900;
    font-size: 72px;
    line-height: 1;
    color: var(--ink);
    opacity: .05;
    pointer-events: none;
    transition: opacity .35s ease, color .35s ease;
}

.pillar-card.is-active .pillar-card__ghost {
    color: var(--accent-text);
    opacity: .14;
}

.pillar-card__icon {
    position: relative;
    width: 52px;
    height: 52px;
    border-radius: 50%;
    background: var(--accent-soft);
    color: var(--accent-text);
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
    margin-bottom: 18px;
    transition: background .35s ease, color .35s ease;
}

.pillar-card__icon svg {
    width: 22px;
    height: 22px;
}

.pillar-card:hover .pillar-card__icon,
.pillar-card.is-active .pillar-card__icon {
    background: var(--accent);
    color: var(--ink);
}

.pillar-card h3 {
    position: relative;
    font-family: var(--font-display);
    font-weight: 800;
    font-size: 16.5px;
    letter-spacing: .01em;
    margin: 0 0 8px;
}

.pillar-card p {
    position: relative;
    font-size: 13.5px;
    line-height: 1.65;
    color: var(--ink-soft);
    margin: 0;
}

@media (max-width: 700px) {
    .pillar-bento {
        grid-template-columns: 1fr;
    }
}

/* Float, not grid: the photo keeps a fixed size and lets the browser's own
   text-wrap do the rest - paragraphs wrap beside it while it's tall enough
   to reach them, then take the full column width back the moment they clear
   its bottom edge. No height-matching logic, no dead space, at any letter
   length. See DESIGN.md "Đôi lời tâm sự" for the passes that got here. */
.letter-block {
    max-width: 970px;
    margin-inline: auto;
}

.letter-block::after {
    content: '';
    display: table;
    clear: both;
}

.letter-visual {
    float: left;
    width: 400px;
    margin: 2px 32px 18px 0;
}

.letter-visual__stack {
    position: relative;
    /* Reserves room for the fanned ghost photos to peek into on both sides -
       without it they overflow the float's own box and paint over the
       wrapped text next to it (#found 2026-08-19, real render, not preview). */
    padding: 0 9%;
}

.letter-visual__frame {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 3;
    aspect-ratio: 5 / 6;
    border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
    overflow: hidden;
    background: var(--paper);
    transform: translateX(-20%) translateY(0%) rotate(0deg) scale(1);
}

.letter-visual__frame img {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
}

/* Two dimmed duplicates of the same photo, fanned out from directly behind
   the main frame on scroll-in. Deliberately asymmetric (left sheet spreads
   further and lifts, right sheet spreads less and settles) - a mirrored fan
   reads as a machine-generated effect, not a stack someone actually laid down. */
.letter-visual__ghost {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 9%;
    right: 9%;
    z-index: 1;
    border-radius: var(--radius-lg);
    overflow: hidden;
    border: 1px solid var(--ink-faint);
    background: var(--paper);
    opacity: 0;
    transform: translateX(0) scale(.92);
    transition: transform .75s cubic-bezier(.16, 1, .3, 1), opacity .5s ease;
}

.letter-visual__ghost img {
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
}

.letter-visual__ghost--a {
    transform-origin: 100% 30%;
    transition-delay: 0s;
}

.letter-visual__ghost--b {
    z-index: 2;
    transform-origin: 0% 70%;
    transition-delay: .24s;
}

.letter-visual.is-inview .letter-visual__ghost--a {
    opacity: 1;
    transform: translateX(-75%) translateY(-5%) rotate(-20deg) scale(0.9);
}

.letter-visual.is-inview .letter-visual__ghost--b {
    opacity: 1;
    transform: translateX(12%) translateY(-5%) rotate(11deg) scale(.95);
}

.letter-body__text {
    font-size: 16px;
    line-height: 1.85;
    color: var(--ink);
}

.letter-body__text p:first-child::first-letter {
    font-family: var(--font-display);
    font-weight: 900;
    font-size: 3.4rem;
    line-height: .78;
    color: var(--accent-text);
    float: left;
    padding-right: 10px;
    padding-top: 4px;
}

.letter-body__text p {
    margin: 0 0 18px;
}

.letter-body__text p:last-child {
    margin-bottom: 0;
}

.letter-body__rule {
    width: 40px;
    height: 2px;
    background: var(--accent);
    border-radius: 2px;
    margin-top: 26px;
}

/* Sign-off, like a real letter closes - name and role after the accent
   rule, not a caption competing with the photo's own fan animation. */
.letter-body__signature {
    margin-top: 18px;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    gap: 2px;
}

.letter-body__signature-name {
    font-family: var(--font-display);
    font-weight: 800;
    font-size: 16px;
    color: var(--ink);
}

.letter-body__signature-role {
    font-size: 13px;
    color: var(--ink-soft);
}

.letter-empty {
    max-width: 580px;
    margin-inline: auto;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 64px 28px;
    border: 1.5px dashed var(--ink-faint);
    border-radius: var(--radius-xl);
    color: var(--ink-soft);
}

.letter-empty svg {
    width: 42px;
    height: 42px;
    margin-bottom: 18px;
    opacity: .4;
}

.letter-empty p {
    margin: 0;
    font-size: 15.5px;
}

/* Was 700px - measured the actual wrapped-text column width across
   701-1024px and it stayed uncomfortably narrow (~237px, ~28 characters
   right after the old breakpoint) until ~900px (~420px, ~48 characters),
   because the 400px float doesn't shrink until this whole block switches
   to single-column. Moved the threshold to where the column actually
   becomes comfortable, matching the 900px breakpoint the homepage's own
   Club Intro split already uses for the same kind of image/text pairing. */
@media (max-width: 900px) {
    .letter-visual {
        float: none;
        width: 100%;
        margin: 0 0 24px;
    }

    /* The desktop fan was tuned to counterbalance the float sitting next to
       a text column (frame shifted left, ghosts spread wide to fill the
       gutter). Centered and stacked on mobile, that same math reads as
       off-kilter and clips against the narrower card - reset the frame to
       sit centered and pull the spread back in to fit a ~300-360px column. */
    .letter-visual__frame {
        transform: translateX(0%) translateY(-1%) rotate(0deg) scale(0.9);
    }

    .letter-visual.is-inview .letter-visual__ghost--a {
        transform: translateX(-45%) translateY(4%) rotate(-9deg) scale(0.85);
    }

    .letter-visual.is-inview .letter-visual__ghost--b {
        transform: translateX(45%) translateY(-4%) rotate(10deg) scale(0.85);
    }

    .letter-body__text p:first-child::first-letter {
        font-size: 2.6rem;
    }
}

.about-nudge {
    margin-top: 40px;
    text-align: center;
}

.about-nudge__link {
    font-family: var(--font-heading);
    font-weight: 700;
    font-size: 15px;
    color: var(--ink);
    text-decoration: underline;
    text-decoration-color: var(--ink-faint);
    text-underline-offset: 4px;
    transition: text-decoration-color .25s ease;
}

.about-nudge__link:hover {
    text-decoration-color: var(--ink);
}

.about-nudge__link span {
    display: inline-block;
    transition: transform .25s cubic-bezier(.16, 1, .3, 1);
}

.about-nudge__link:hover span {
    transform: translateX(3px);
}

.closing-cta__note--about {
    margin-top: 8px;
}

.closing-cta__note--about b {
    font-weight: 800;
}

.closing-cta__scrim-about {
    background: rgba(16, 16, 16, 0.781);
}