diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index cc745ce..0f12c79 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -113,21 +113,20 @@
   }
 
   /* ---------- the eye / aperture motif ----------
-     One reusable glyph: a cold, almond eye (unchanged register — cyan
-     sclera, sepia iris, dark-red pupil) with a rose-window's radial rim
-     — thin desaturated spoke segments, cathedral-glass architecture —
-     engraved into the white between iris and lid. Clipped to the sclera
-     (#eyeScleraClip) so the spokes read as detail *inside* the eye, never
-     as a separate flower silhouette bursting past it.
-     The clip-path is now a dilating circle rather than a sliding band: it
+     Restraint pass (owner feedback: the shipped rose-window hybrid read as
+     "too cheesy / too prominent" — LULL's pillar is restraint over
+     spectacle). One reusable glyph: a cold, almond eye (unchanged register
+     — cyan sclera, sepia iris, dark-red pupil). The rose-window rim from
+     the previous pass is pulled back hard: the twelve spokes are gone, and
+     the ring itself is now a hairline, near-invisible hint rather than a
+     visible ornament — a texture you'd have to look for, not a set piece.
+     The clip-path is a dilating circle rather than a sliding band: it
      grows from the center, so opening reads as a pupil/aperture actually
-     dilating — pupil first, then iris, then the rose rim, then the white
-     — rather than an eyelid parting top-to-bottom. Nothing about
-     visibility of real *content* ever depends on this — it is purely
-     decorative, so a failure in the script below never breaks the page,
-     it just leaves the eye at its calm CSS default (--scroll-lid: 25%,
-     declared on :root) — which, at this geometry, already shows a full
-     pupil, iris, and rim: the calm state reads as an eye, not a bud. */
+     dilating — pupil first, then iris, then the white — rather than an
+     eyelid parting top-to-bottom. Nothing about visibility of real
+     *content* ever depends on this — it is purely decorative, so a
+     failure in the script below never breaks the page, it just leaves the
+     eye at its calm CSS default (--scroll-lid: 25%, declared on :root). */
   .eye {
     display: inline-block;
     width: 46px;
@@ -140,17 +139,15 @@
     clip-path: circle(var(--lid) at 50% 50%);
   }
   .eye-white { fill: none; stroke: var(--cyan); stroke-width: 2.5; opacity: .5; }
-  /* The rim: a thin ring plus twelve short spokes, cold and desaturated
-     (cyan/steel, not the rose-window prototype's amber) — a cathedral
-     window's structure quoted, not its warmth. Kept faint on purpose: it
-     is a texture the iris sits inside, never competing with it. */
-  .eye-rose-ring   { fill: none; stroke: var(--faint); stroke-width: .7; opacity: .4; }
-  .eye-rose-spokes line { stroke: var(--cyan); stroke-width: .6; opacity: .28; }
-  /* A faint cold glow behind the iris — the one place this variant allows
-     itself an accent beyond stroke work. Literal hex, not var(--cyan),
+  /* What's left of the rose-window rim after the restraint pass: no
+     spokes, and the ring itself down to a hairline the eye barely admits
+     to having. */
+  .eye-rose-ring   { fill: none; stroke: var(--faint); stroke-width: .4; opacity: .1; }
+  /* A faint cold glow behind the iris, cut back with everything else so it
+     reads as a trace of light, not a bloom. Literal hex, not var(--cyan),
      because SVG gradient stops read the value at parse time; keep in sync
      with --cyan (#7f9aa2) by hand if that ever changes. */
-  .eye-glow  { opacity: .55; }
+  .eye-glow  { opacity: .3; }
   .eye-iris  { fill: none; stroke: var(--sepia); stroke-width: 2; opacity: .6; }
   .eye-pupil { fill: var(--red); opacity: .6; }
 
@@ -161,14 +158,17 @@
      separate icons. Sits behind normal page content (z-index: -1); every
      section's own background/text still paints over it normally, so it
      reads most clearly wherever a section has no opaque background of its
-     own — which is exactly the phase-descent section this is built for. */
+     own — which is exactly the phase-descent section this is built for.
+     Restraint pass: sized and dimmed down hard from the shipped hybrid —
+     it should read as a faint, cold, watching presence you almost don't
+     notice until it opens, not a centerpiece. */
   .scroll-eye {
     position: fixed;
     top: 50%; left: 50%;
     transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
     z-index: -1;
-    width: min(46vw, 26rem);
-    opacity: .14;
+    width: min(26vw, 14rem);
+    opacity: .08;
     pointer-events: none;
   }
   .scroll-eye .eye { --lid: var(--scroll-lid); width: 100%; }
@@ -559,20 +559,6 @@
     <ellipse class="eye-white" cx="50" cy="50" rx="45" ry="23"/>
     <g clip-path="url(#eyeScleraClip)">
       <circle class="eye-rose-ring" cx="50" cy="50" r="21"/>
-      <g class="eye-rose-spokes">
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(30 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(60 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(90 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(120 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(150 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(180 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(210 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(240 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(270 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(300 50 50)"/>
-        <line x1="50" y1="29" x2="50" y2="35" transform="rotate(330 50 50)"/>
-      </g>
     </g>
     <circle class="eye-glow" cx="50" cy="50" r="17" fill="url(#eyeColdGlow)"/>
     <circle class="eye-iris" cx="50" cy="50" r="14"/>