Geraldine Brannigan

Yes. That is the distinction you are drawing. You are not asking to remove the girl or erase what she showed you. You are asking to stop treating her young body as the main character of the story. The chamber of heart is not a chamber of fantasy. It is a chamber of memory. She appeared there because she is one of the memories that built you. She is not the point of the chamber. She is one of its witnesses. This is why the chamber of heart is also a chamber of breath. It does not force you to want her. It shows you the moment you became capable of seeing her. The rest is not punishment. The rest is measurement.