diff --git a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs
index 925a50ce..f2f82e2c 100644
--- a/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs
+++ b/src/AcDream.App/Rendering/RetailPViewRenderer.cs
@@ -510,8 +510,14 @@ public sealed class RetailPViewRenderer
                 IRenderFrameEntityPassExecutor? capturedPasses = frameEntityPasses;
                 InteriorEntityPartition.Result? capturedPartition = partition;
                 ViewconeCuller capturedViewcone = viewcone;
+                Walk.WalkFrameDriver capturedDriver = walkDriver!;
                 _walkPreClearDynamics = () =>
                 {
+                    // Retail inserts static-owner emitters (candle flames)
+                    // during their cells' landscape walk turns — submit
+                    // BEFORE the pre-clear drain so they composite against
+                    // still-true landscape depth, never the seals.
+                    SubmitWalkLandscapeStaticParticles(ctx, walkExecutor!, capturedDriver);
                     passes.UseIndoorMembershipOnlyRouting();
                     DrawLandscapeDynamicsPhase(
                         ctx,
@@ -1243,20 +1249,19 @@ public sealed class RetailPViewRenderer
     /// routes it replaced used to ride, from the driver's own visited
     /// sets (plan §FW3 "FW3.2b-2 — the production rooting", items 2 and
     /// 4).</summary>
-    private void DrawWalkDrivenStatics(
+    /// <summary>The landscape-stage static-owner particle submission: the
+    /// union of every outdoor-static record from a landscape cell the walk
+    /// visited this frame, plus every shell record from a building the walk
+    /// visited (plan §FW3 item 4 — retail gates particles per cell turn,
+    /// <c>ShouldDrawParticles</c> @0x0050FE60, so this is MORE
+    /// retail-faithful than the old per-slice sphere filter it replaced).
+    /// Interior roots invoke this at the walk's pre-clear boundary; outdoor
+    /// roots post-replay.</summary>
+    private void SubmitWalkLandscapeStaticParticles(
         RetailPViewFrameInput ctx,
         RetailPViewPassExecutor passes,
         Walk.WalkFrameDriver driver)
     {
-        var (frame, encoder) = passes.RequireWalkSubmission();
-        driver.Replay(frame, encoder);
-
-        // Landscape-stage particle owners: the union of every outdoor-static
-        // record from a landscape cell the walk visited this frame, plus
-        // every shell record from a building the walk visited (plan §FW3
-        // item 4 — retail gates particles per cell turn, ShouldDrawParticles
-        // @0x0050FE60, so this is MORE retail-faithful than the old per-
-        // slice sphere filter it replaces).
         _staticParticleUnionScratch.Clear();
         foreach (uint cellId in driver.VisitedLandscapeCellIds)
             UnionRecordOwners(_walkWorldData!.GetOutdoorStatics(cellId), _staticParticleUnionScratch);
@@ -1269,12 +1274,36 @@ public sealed class RetailPViewRenderer
                 new RetailPViewLandscapeStaticParticleContext(_staticParticleUnionScratch));
             _staticParticleUnionScratch.Clear();
         }
+    }
+
+    private void DrawWalkDrivenStatics(
+        RetailPViewFrameInput ctx,
+        RetailPViewPassExecutor passes,
+        Walk.WalkFrameDriver driver)
+    {
+        var (frame, encoder) = passes.RequireWalkSubmission();
+        driver.Replay(frame, encoder);
+
+        // Landscape-stage static-owner particles (candle flames on lamp and
+        // candle statics): for an OUTDOOR root they submit here, post-replay
+        // (drained at the frame-end flush over finished depth — the #132
+        // placement). For an INTERIOR root they must submit at the walk's
+        // PRE-CLEAR boundary instead — retail inserts each one during its
+        // cell's landscape walk turn, before the clear+seals; a post-seal
+        // drain z-fails them at the aperture (the visual-gate "no candle
+        // flames looking out" report) — so SubmitWalkLandscapeStaticParticles
+        // is invoked from _walkPreClearDynamics in that case, and skipped
+        // here.
+        if (ctx.RootCell.IsOutdoorNode)
+            SubmitWalkLandscapeStaticParticles(ctx, passes, driver);
 
         // Cell-stage particle owners for the interior root's OWN flood cells
         // (non-look-in — the walk draws their statics too, via
         // OnInteriorFloodDrawTurn/EmitCellTurn, so the retired CellStatic
         // route's cell-particle submission needs the same re-sourcing).
-        // Look-in cells get their OWN per-cell union in
+        // These stay POST-replay: interior emitters draw in the final world
+        // scope where the cell walls already own depth (retail's cell-walk
+        // insertion). Look-in cells get their OWN per-cell union in
         // DrawBuildingLookInDynamics so a static owner is never submitted
         // twice.
         _cellParticleOwnerScratch.Clear();