# Fungal Haven v3b — Cradle Glow (rocking 6/8 kalimba+piano lullaby)

`fungal-haven-v3b` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take B is the BOLDER second reading of the catalog's coziest bed (E-flat major, HEARTH, warm pads + kalimba + gentle sub). Where the faithful reading is a straight-4/4 kalimba lullaby, this take commits to a distinct angle: a rocking COMPOUND 6/8 CRADLE — 'lullaby' taken literally as the rock of a cradle, the sub swaying long-short on a dotted pulse so even standing still the grotto rocks you — and a music-box DUET lead: the kalimba states the HEARTH round (head on the grid, the 2-1 settle augmented x2 so rest stretches) and a struckPiano (tone WARMEST, the conscious warm extreme — the felt-piano fix, never the old plucked feltPiano) answers it a beat behind, the two instruments cradling the line between them. Fully diatonic E-flat major throughout; no chromaticism. Activity L1 (ch4-5) = the kalimba round + a soft-pluck echo. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS NEW MATERIAL, not volume: the struckPiano duet partner answering the round AND a sustained warm-pad counter a third/sixth below — new instruments and new lines filling the lullaby out. Danger is spore bloom rebuilt as real ENCOUNTER music while keeping the row's benign urgency ('leave soon', never 'run screaming', never horror): danger L1 (ch8-9) is the cradle gone APPREHENSIVE (real unease, not near-silence) — soft thip puffball releases one per pulse over a warm low pedal, the air thickening. Danger L2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump: the danger SECTION steps up to 96 BPM (a true gear-change), a soft brushed KIT arrives (gentle kick pulse + brushed-snare backbeat + shaker + hat motion), the thip releases multiply into a spore-rush and a bloomSwell exhale opens each bar — new rhythmic material and higher density, 'leave soon NOW', not danger1 with the fader up. Dread is abstract (density, the rock turning busy, the tempo lifting); thip and bloomSwell are STRUCK one-shots (puffball pops), never a continuous spore-haze noise bed (that bed is retired per the v3 corrections).
