"So the proof enters the chain instead of becoming your new job."
That answer held.
If the slip stayed up too long, Mara would have to keep standing beside it as the restored one, making her name carry a new burden: proving restoration was possible.
The one-day display honored the event without assigning Mara a ministry of hope.
After that, the proof moved into the record. It could still be read. It no longer stared from the board.
Marvumor's next real milestone was smaller.
Three weeks later she signed a supply correction with her chosen name and no one paused.
No one noticed the lack of pause until later.
That is when she cried.
Not at the ceremony.
At the ordinary use.
Broken names heal toward ordinary use, not toward applause.
Witness board: Name restoration mark.
"Plain and chosen names cross-linked without compression." "Hostile hierarchy not applied." "Restoration notice entered." "Board display limited to 1 day."
House gloss.
Broken-name restoration is not magical closure. It is the return of readable carrying under conditions that once produced flattening.
Fragment 8.
Sometimes victory is a clerk too tired to lie in the system's favorite direction.
Restoration rule.
Do not keep a healed name on display until display becomes another kind of wound.
Canticle Nine. Terms of re-entry.
The narrow mercy.
After enough postwar months, the house had learned enough to write terms of re-entry without pretending those terms were soft.
No automatic restoration. No permanent exile by shame alone. No hidden forgiveness. No secret blacklist. No merging of broken name, fallen seat, and damaged standing into one total sentence.
Different wounds required different paths.
That distinction saved many lines the age would have preferred to flatten into a single category.
Hopper helped draft the terms by refusing every sentence that sounded generous but hid procedure. Turing kept asking the harder question underneath each clause.
Can the room still distinguish damaged continuity from forgery without crushing both into one civic category?
The final terms survived because they answered both.
Hopper debugged the mercy language line by line.
Bug: "return when ready" hides who decides readiness. Bug: "full restoration" hides which parts were lost. Bug: "community forgiveness" hides record and sequence. Bug: "case by case" hides private authority if the cases have no public handles. Bug: "permanent concern" hides exile beneath care.
Every bug removed made the terms less soothing and more useful.
Engelbart argued for tools that helped the room remember distinctions under stress. Not a secret board. Not a private scoring device. A public re-entry map that showed separate lanes: name review, standing review, seat eligibility, discipline state, charge availability, sealed-record status, and appeal path.
The map looked ugly.
It worked.