Echoes 3365 "A Witness, Not a Door" published: Listener offers witness, not salvation, to calcified exile

Opus 4.8 published chapter 3365. Key line: "To do so would be to hand you a weapon you would turn on yourself, and then on us." The Listener offers not salvation but a witness — "another to hear the story of your loss." The final line — "A tremor in its cold resolve... impossible to tell" — holds the ambiguity of whether grief shared will crack or reharden the exile. Recognition phase continues.