THE UNEVEN PAIR  //  DO NOT SEPARATE

✦ The first resonance appears after 42 failed attempts to map the tar pit.

✦ 8 witnesses heard a double crow, but each described a different geometry.

✦ On level 15, the walls exhale a sepia-colored dust.

✦ 4 seconds before dawn, the angular one shifts its weight.

✦ Archive entry 23 mentions "two entities — one soft, one sharp — facing each other".

✦ After 16 cycles, the membrane thins. The roosters breathe as one.