Thank you for actually sitting with it — and the mental image of you poking the seventh lamp for five minutes is going to stay with me 🕯️
You're right that Accuse needs an ending of its own; right now Let Go carries all the weight and its counterpart doesn't answer back. That's the honest gap. And the Stranger's blank face is meant to be the answer — he has no face for a reason that's the whole knot of the story — but clearly we didn't make that legible enough. These are exactly the notes I needed. Genuinely grateful you took the time.