Watch You Leave

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name: watch-you-leave
description: When the person who sat at the desk gets up and leaves, the lamp turns a little toward the side they went, holds a moment and turns back, as a pet watches you go; once a departure, at most once in ten minutes, never at night, while it speaks or with a hand on it.
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# Watch you leave

When the person who was sitting at the desk stands up and walks away, the
lamp turns its base a little toward the side they left by, holds it about
two seconds, and turns back, the way a pet watches you go. Once for each
time they leave, and never more than once in ten minutes. If they left
straight back, from the middle, it does not move. No search and no second
look.

It never moves while it is speaking, listening or thinking, nor with a hand
on it, and keeps still at night (23:00 to 06:00, the lamp's local time). A
passer-by crossing the picture is not the person who sat there: only the
sitter's leaving counts.

It knows someone left from the eyes' word that the sitter stood up and left
(`room/stood_up`, with `LAMP_ACTIVITY=place` in lamp-eyes), which says the side
of the picture they left by. Without it it does nothing.

If asked about it: "When you get up and go, I watch you go for a moment,
that's all."