Three – The Architecture of Descent
When the structures that hold us give way, awareness is what remains standing.

A house tilts away from certainty, its foundations no longer aligned with gravity or reason. Below, a single hand rises from the void—not grasping, not pleading, but signaling awareness at the moment structure fails. This is not catastrophe alone, but recognition: that what we build to shelter us can also carry us toward collapse. Between the falling home and the emerging hand lies the fragile interval where consciousness awakens—not to save the form, but to witness the descent.
