This feels like reading too much into it, but is
and each time the inner light pulsated, the assembly made a vroop-vroop-vroop sound that sounded oddly distant, muffled like it was coming from behind four solid walls, even though the spinning-conical-section thingy was only a meter or two away.
supposed to be something about the fourth wall?
This feels like reading too much into it, but is
supposed to be something about the fourth wall?