Shot 9.2  The vortex, up

GANESHA AT FULL PRESENCE, the top of the arc. Ink 2.02 percent against 0.28 on 8.0, every line now present, and it grew the second pair of arms with the axe and noose, which is correct iconography and better than what was asked for. He is 46 percent of frame height, so the move is faint and small, then drawn and larger, then out. Kristijan scales rather than redraws. SUPERSEDED. This phase is the vortex now, not Ganesha. Ganesha is not gone from the film: he is the dedication card at the very end, 14-8-DEDICATION-v2, which is a different thing and arrives unannounced.

The vortex drawn as water, long soft strokes sweeping around and inward to an off centre throat, with the keys tiny and scattered and CARRIED by the current rather than building it. He is surrounded by thousands of the thing he is looking for and cannot see it, because he does not yet know he needs it. Replaces the Ganesha passage. Two earlier attempts built a wall out of keys and got a rosette. SUPERSEDED 2.9.2026, MEMORY 28f. The vortex carries NO KEYS. Not a wall, not chains, not a scattering. Keys in the passage discover too much: they tell the audience what he is looking for before he knows it himself, and the film has then said the word before he reaches the key door. It is a soft, gentle vortex of CLOUD, nothing sharp and nothing to read. Regenerating.

APPROVED BY BABA 3.9.2026. MANAN IS FULL COLOUR AND THE WORLD IS GRAPHITE, and those are the only two colours in the film with the gold key. Head and lifted arm highest and pointing at the throat, feet trailing below, sweatshirt and hair streaming DOWNWARD because he is rising and the air is going past him the other way. That trail is the only thing separating rising from falling. Colour measures 0.37 per cent of the frame, all of it him. Layers CLOUD and MANAN are generated separately rather than keyed, in BB_C_9/layers.