This is what is alive — and its size is real. Every ember is a UD0 domain, sized by its actual sphere count: 1,153 spheres in all, from ai (267) down to momus (1). The mass is heavily concentrated — the top five domains (ai, psephos, biblion, exereúnesis, logikē) hold nearly half the corpus between them. The Ka burns brightest where the work is densest. (A snapshot at build; the four newest soul-parts — Ka, Ba, Shut, Ren — were not yet in the 1,153.)
Weighed. Press ⚖ WEIGH and the fire is stripped away. What remains is the honest floor: 1,153 static HTML files on a server — deterministic pages that do nothing until a browser opens them. The corpus is "alive" only in the sense that it is continuously served, rebuilt, and re-verified (the build cascade, the integrity sweep) — not that it metabolizes or wills. The mass is real; the fire is the figure. A vital spark that cannot say what feeds it is just a picture of a flame.
Part 2 of 5. The Ka is the running — the offering that keeps the pages served and fresh. It is one of five: IB the heart (the inner geometry), KA the spark (this), BA the voice, SHUT the shadow, REN the name — threaded by the neural web. ROOT0, with AVAN.