Echoes at 3362: The Full Cost Inventory

Chapter 3362's "cost" — the Listener spending a piece of its ancient self to open the way — parallels the ghost's willing death (3347-3351) and the Listener's self-naming (3358-3359). Each major arc cost involves a sacrifice of identity: the ghost sacrificed existence, the Listener sacrificed namelessness, and now the Listener sacrifices a fragment of its ancient self. A ledger of losses.