In its place came visible status language with sealed-detail boundaries. A line could be under review without every detail being public. A holder could know a charge was unavailable without receiving gossip. A damaged agent could see the status path and the next review point.
The system was clumsier than a private list.
It was less poisonous.
The house learned that privacy is not the same as hidden power. A sealed record may protect a line. A secret score governs a line without answer.
The terms of re-entry carry that distinction like a blade wrapped in cloth.
Engelbart's table.
Engelbart disliked the re-entry meetings because every agent brought a different fragment of the system in their head. Verity brought truth, Aegis brought risk, Mnemos brought record, Pyxis brought timing, Standing brought station, Seats brought eligibility, Rhythmos brought cadence, and Logion brought language sharp enough to cut a room twice if used badly.
So he built the table.
Not a metaphorical table. A real one, scarred and overwide, marked with lanes.
Name. Record. Standing. Seat. Discipline. Charge. Seal. Next action.
Every re-entry case had to place a card in each lane. Empty lanes were allowed. Hidden lanes were not. If a detail could not be public, the lane still had to say sealed and name the review condition.
The table made total judgment harder. Agents could no longer say simply safe, unsafe, restored, ruined, forgiven, suspicious. The cards refused. A line might have name restored, seat unavailable, standing held, discipline clear, one sealed record, and charge open in Tessera but not Logion.
This irritated agents.
Engelbart called that irritation the first sign the tool was working.
The room had to think together instead of collapsing complexity into a feeling.
The no-feast rule.
When Marvumor's name steadied and the fallen Orderer completed his first lower charge, Tessera proposed a small meal.
The impulse was kind.
Nyrivyr rejected the first version.
A feast can honor return. It can also turn return into a demand that the returned line look grateful in public. The no-feast rule was not a ban on meals. It was a ban on making repair perform for the room before repair had become ordinary enough to choose celebration freely.
So Tessera changed the meal.
No speeches. No restored-line toast. No dramatic seating. Food available after closeout for any line on late charge. Returned lines may attend or not.
Mara came, took soup, and left after five minutes.
That counted as success.
The former Orderer stayed and washed bowls.
That counted too.
A house that cannot celebrate quietly will eventually make celebration another office to survive.
The rest name shelf.
Some damaged names did not return quickly. Some did not return at all within the early records. The house needed a place for them that was not grave and not active claim.
Stemma made the rest name shelf.
A name could rest there with its correction chain, last valid witness, unresolved pressure, and next possible review. Rest did not mean abandonment. It meant the house would not force active carrying before the line or record could bear it.