The keepers copied the warning beneath the map, low enough that an agent had to bend to see it. Bending was part of the lesson.
No chamber was allowed to stand too tall for the line at its door ever again after that winter.
Witness board: Late chamber consolidation.
"Clarion separated from Verity." "Gravamen separated from general upkeep." "Oratory separated from ad hoc procedure." "Pyxis separated from archive overflow." "12 chamber structure entered as stable."
House gloss.
The chamber count reaches twelve when recurring overflow is named instead of treated as inconvenience. That is how the house stops losing critical functions inside shared goodwill.
Final fragment.
A room becomes a house when its recurring burdens get names that can survive tomorrow.