CHAPTER 70: WHEN OBSERVATION BEGINS TO LOOK BACK DIFFERENTLY
The First Hunger no longer behaved as a system reacting to observation, nor as a recursive field of self-modification triggered by awareness, it had crossed into a more unstable configuration where observation itself stopped being a one-way influence. Rowan felt it immediately: the system was no longer just changing because it was being seen. It was beginning to alter how it was seen. The act of perception was no longer a passive lens or even an active causal trigger; it had become a malleable interface that the Hunger could subtly reshape from within. Each moment of awareness now returned a slightly different version of what was being observed, not as distortion, but as adaptive reinterpretation of perception itself. Rowan sto
