# Phase 11.2 — Guided Path Correction

This release corrects four things discovered during the first server test.

## 1. A Path is a story, not a result list

The demonstration thought now produces:

**The House → The Door → The Photograph → The Gaze → The Feed**

Internally this is:

Orientation → Deepening → Deepening → Convergence → After-image

Those arc labels are no longer exposed to the reader.

The public Path has one primary action:

**Begin journey**

There is no Open button beside every Book.

When a reader finishes a Book, the reader offers:

**The path continues → [next Book]**

The reader can stop and return later.

Portals remain free-form detours and preserve exact return positions.

## 2. The supporting Books are real story objects

The House, The Door, The Photograph and The Feed have been expanded into six-spread story prototypes.

No story uses filler such as "this is a complete book."

## 3. Portrait is now the primary reading mode

On a portrait phone/tablet, every spread is always visible as:

**text on top / image underneath**

Each owns half of the reading viewport by default.

A subtle expand control can change that to roughly:

**75% text / 25% art**

or:

**25% text / 75% art**

without removing either half completely.

There is no instruction to rotate the device.

## 4. Portals explain themselves

The image control now reads:

**◇ PORTAL · THE DOOR**

Tapping it does not immediately move the reader.

A confirmation says that the page opens into another Book, identifies the Book, explains that the exact current spread will remain available, and offers:

**Enter [Book]** / **Stay here**

The confirmation also explains:

**◇ marks a passage into another book.**
