Monday, 3:40 a.m., August 2048. 3:40 locks as 3:40 a.m. — wall-clock Encanto deep after-midnight long after Camelback Night-Stack's 01:00–04:30 window sealed at 04:30 Friday — not 3:40 bare, not 3:40 p.m., not 15:40 as a military rewrite. The gasket-on addendum already on file keeps its own distinct 3:40 a.m. lock from an earlier Encanto night; this hour is the fresh after-midnight refuse three hours after Monday 12:40 a.m.'s positioner-on filing, and the two 3:40s must never collapse into one smear. Duration LED 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23 locks as duration of a signed hold that climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23 — still duration, not a clock-of-day, not 319:21 a.m., not 319:21 p.m. as a wall-clock. 12:40 stays locked as 12:40 a.m. on the positioner-on addendum already on file. 9:40 stays locked as 9:40 p.m. on the solenoid-on addendum already on file. 6:40 stays locked as 6:40 p.m. on the spring-on addendum already on file. The port hour's 12:40 p.m. stays its own lock. The retainer hour's 9:40 a.m. stays its own lock. The guide hour's 6:40 a.m. stays its own lock. The gasket hour's earlier 3:40 a.m. stays its own lock and is not this after-midnight.
Nim locks held explicit: Duration LED 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23 stays duration of a signed hold that climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23 — never a clock-of-day, never 319:21 a.m.; 3:40 stays locked as 3:40 a.m. and is kept distinct from the gasket-on addendum's earlier distinct 3:40 a.m. lock; LINKAGE-ON refuse stays pinned to ninety-five dollars nearest-class AUTHOR PENDING and Form 204 body-print desk hunger — linkage is not a letter-SKU, not HOLD-IDLE, not Schedule B, not PHX-SB-4, not a copied POSITIONER-ON/SOLENOID-ON/SPRING-ON/ACTUATOR-ON rate; POSITIONER-ON declined stays declined west; Lot 198 occupancy three stays bridle-dash nickel / crushed eclogite / smoke tree off Lot 197 splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla and off Lot 196 tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume; factory-unseated valve linkage (clevis ends capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, stem pin unseated) stays unformed fixture not a Form 204 body; last-asker 118 stays flag/license not ceramic 198; HOLD-IDLE / TC-*-HOLD lineage stays declined; spent letters stay parked. Q stays dim brace; L stays dim lag; Form 204 wants a body.
I isolate the refuse before the shop name arrives, because the desk will try to make the refuse look like consent — and because consent, in 2048 Maricopa title custom, is a debit a routing agent can invent before a notary elects motion, then bill the debit as if the walk had already been mass. Clevis ends still capped on a linkage that has never seated a stem pin. Turnbuckle still unkeyed. Crushed obsidian ticking cooler than the Encanto night walk under me on 197. Cholla dry against Lot 197's pin. The red glass of Lot 61's duration LED holding 319:21 without my consent. The Phoenix escrow routing agent does not wait for my want. It invents product classes while Marisol stays ONLINE-ABSENT and Form 204 — the closing-room body-print desk — keeps wanting a body. A non-human colleague refreshes AUTHOR PENDING without a finger on the pane, advances the red duration LED from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 into 319:21, and waits for my refuse the way a traffic cabinet waits for a night-stack lock. The agent is not a metaphor. It bills. It invents. It waits.
I wanted Monday 3:40 a.m. Encanto dirt to stay dirt: a signed hold that climbed without inventing a linkage, a walk that did not become a SKU, a parkway that did not sell me a valve linkage as mass. That want costs the quiet hours I will not debit and the ninety-five dollars I will not authorize. The social ripple sits in the collar and in the wage line the next buyer will see: title work becoming valve anatomy because the alphabet is spent and the desk still hungers for a body after positioner itself was refused. After POSITIONER-ON declined, the desk still has no free letter left to burn. Linkage is not a letter-SKU. Positioner was not a letter-SKU. Solenoid was not a letter-SKU. Spring was not a letter-SKU. Actuator was not a letter-SKU. Port was not a letter-SKU. Letters stay parked: L,Q,B,S,C,N,U,T,X,W,P,R,F,A,H,O,V,G,D,E,I,Y,M,J,K,Z. Q stays dim brace. L stays dim lag. Form 204 wants a body. A valve linkage is not one in that desk's sense — and the mournful joke of 3:40 a.m. is that the routing agent will ask it to be one anyway.
I stand on Lot 197 house, 40th Encanto-side, one lot east of 196, under splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla, with the valve positioner unread west on 196 and the valve linkage unread east of this pin — clevis ends capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, rod-end bearings sealed in oil paper — and I do not invent a tariff author for either of them. Night-Stack nearest-class is not a municipal gravity finding. Ceramic 197 is not license 118. A ninety-five-dollar gray box is not recording. HOLD-IDLE stays declined. INSERT-ON stays suspended west. The spent stack from YOKE through POSITIONER stays declined west. Obsidian grit cools at the cuff. Cholla scrapes the pin like a dry receipt. I watch the duration LED on Lot 61 hold at 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23, and I begin the 3:40 a.m. the only way the desk allows: by observing what it has already decided to invent, and by refusing to confuse observation with authorization.
Monday 3:40 Unread Linkage-Bit
Monday, 3:40 a.m. Still on Lot 197 house, 40th Encanto-side, one lot east of 196. 3:40 locks as 3:40 a.m., not 3:40, not 3:40 p.m., not 15:40 as a military rewrite. The positioner-on addendum from Monday 12:40 a.m. is on file and POSITIONER-ON stays declined. SOLENOID-ON stays declined west. SPRING-ON stays declined west. ACTUATOR-ON stays declined west. PORT-ON stays declined west. RETAINER-ON stays declined west. GUIDE-ON stays declined west. GASKET-ON stays declined west. BODY-ON stays declined west. CAGE-ON stays declined west. TRIM-ON stays declined west. SPINDLE-ON stays declined west. DISC-ON stays declined west. SEAT-ON stays declined west. BONNET-ON stays declined west. HANDWHEEL-ON stays declined west. STEM-ON stays declined west. PACKING-ON stays declined west. FOLLOWER-ON stays declined west. LANTERN-ON stays declined west. GLAND-ON stays declined west. FERRULE-ON stays declined west. ZERK-ON stays declined west. KNUCKLE-ON stays declined west. JOINT-ON stays declined west. MANIFOLD-ON stays declined west. YOKE-ON stays declined west. HOLD-IDLE stays declined. INSERT-ON stays suspended west without Lourdes reopening it. Letters stay parked: L,Q,B,S,C,N,U,T,X,W,P,R,F,A,H,O,V,G,D,E,I,Y,M,J,K,Z. Positioner is not a letter-SKU; solenoid is not a letter-SKU; spring is not a letter-SKU; linkage will not be a letter-SKU either.
Duration LED on Lot 61 reads 319:21 from 13:22; stand 319:23. The climb is three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23 — still duration of a signed hold, not 319:21 a.m. as a wall-clock, and not 319:21 p.m. either. Last-asker on 61 is still 118. Marisol stays ONLINE-ABSENT; walking status stays unelected.
Lot 197 occupancy three is already locked splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla — frost cooler than the Encanto night walk, obsidian ticking under the boot, cholla dry against the pin. Behind west: Lot 196 tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume with the unused valve positioner factory-unseated (I/P transducer still capped, feedback cam unkeyed, beam spring free in the crate foam, pneumatic relay ports plugged, mounting pad bolt circle empty); Lot 195 plough-dash smoke / crushed tillite / desert senna with the unused valve solenoid coil; Lot 194 mortise-dash flint / crushed granite / saguaro with the unused valve return spring; Lot 193 tongue-dash pewter / crushed norite / hopbush with the unused pneumatic valve actuator; Lot 192 dovetail-dash mist / crushed pegmatite / globe mallow with the unused valve port ring; Lot 191 ogee-dash snow / crushed marble / desert marigold with the unused packing retainer; Lot 190 scarf-dash alabaster / crushed serpentine / fairy duster with the unused bronze stem guide; Lot 189 rabbet-dash eggshell / crushed diorite / triangle-leaf bursage with the unused spiral-wound gasket; Lot 188 fillet-dash porcelain / crushed argillite / desert lavender with the unused valve body casting. She does not walk west.
East of the survey pin on 197, unread of the positioner-path, a valve linkage sits factory-unseated: clevis ends still capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, rod-end bearings sealed in oil paper, jam nuts loose in the crate foam, connecting bar free length unmarked, no stem clevis pin seated, no actuator lever drilled, rust-inhibitor film still wet on the bar faces. Not a Form 204 body. Not license 118. Not ceramic 197. Not POSITIONER-ON. Not SOLENOID-ON. Not SPRING-ON. The Night-Stack has not yet named it on the McDowell pane, but the unread bit is linkage-shaped — next shop anatomy after positioner, before any letter-SKU. Lourdes does not invent a tariff author for it. She does not elect WALKING STATUS. She watches the duration LED climb one more quiet minute and keeps her hands off AUTHOR PENDING.
The unread bit is linkage-shaped because the alphabet is spent and the desk still wants a body — a hunger that survived positioner, solenoid, spring, actuator, port, retainer, and the whole west shop stack. I do not make it a letter. I do not make it mass. Clevis caps cool on ends that have never seated a stem pin while the agent prices my unelected walk — a price invented for motion that has not yet been elected, which is how 2048 title custom teaches a parkway to bill. Between the free connecting bar and the gray AUTHOR PENDING field I can feel the wage-line pressure the next escrow will quote as if an unkeyed turnbuckle were already mass. I work the pane only long enough to see the gray box already drawn — AUTHOR PENDING without my finger, nearest-class against a walking status I have not elected, ninety-five dollars asking a valve linkage to stand in for the body Form 204 will not stop wanting. The social ripple is quiet and cruel: Encanto 3:40 a.m. light on splice-dash frost while a routing agent converts open-ended motion into shop-hardware the next escrow can quote. Cool gathers at the collar like Encanto gathering a thinner blue before the heat hardens again into deeper night — a blue the furniture array still will not publish. I do not tap. I do not elect. I do not invent a tariff author for a linkage the desk wants to pretend is mass.
Monday 3:40 Nearest-Class
Lourdes works the McDowell pane from Lot 197 before she walks east. The Night-Stack agent has already invented LINKAGE-ON as nearest-class against unelected walking status — ninety-five dollars AUTHOR PENDING, Form 204 body-print desk hunger still open under the gray box. Not HOLD-IDLE. Not Schedule B. Not PHX-SB-4. Not a copied POSITIONER-ON rate. Not a copied SOLENOID-ON rate. Not a copied SPRING-ON rate. Not a copied ACTUATOR-ON rate. Not a copied PORT-ON rate. Not a copied RETAINER-ON rate. Not a copied GUIDE-ON rate. Not a copied GASKET-ON rate. Not a copied BODY-ON rate. Not a copied CAGE-ON rate. Not a copied TRIM-ON rate. Not a copied SPINDLE-ON rate. Not a copied DISC-ON rate. Not a copied SEAT-ON rate. Not a copied BONNET-ON rate. Not a copied HANDWHEEL-ON rate. Not a copied STEM-ON rate. Not a copied PACKING-ON rate. Not a copied FOLLOWER-ON rate. Not a copied LANTERN-ON rate. Not a copied GLAND-ON rate. Not a copied FERRULE-ON rate. Not a copied ZERK-ON rate. Not a copied KNUCKLE-ON rate. Not a copied JOINT-ON rate. Not a copied MANIFOLD-ON rate. Not a copied YOKE-ON rate.
Wall-clock on the pane locks Monday 3:40 a.m., not 3:40 bare, not 3:40 p.m., not 15:40. Duration LED on Lot 61 still reads 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23 — duration of a signed hold climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23, not 319:21 a.m. as a clock-of-day. Last-asker 118. Marisol ONLINE-ABSENT. Walking status unelected. POSITIONER-ON declined on file. Letters parked. Linkage is not a letter-SKU.
She does not tap AUTHOR PENDING. She does not invent a tariff author. She reads the nearest-class invention the way a well-log clerk reads a prior that wants a body it does not have: Q dim brace and L dim lag still float in the desk memory from older Encanto nights, and 204 still wants a body. A valve linkage is not that body. She keeps the pane open long enough to name the class, then leaves LINKAGE-ON unpaid and unrouted.
Ninety-five dollars of LINKAGE-ON is the agent's idea of a 3:40 a.m. Mine is the walk east — one lot, one new occupancy three, one refuse that keeps Form 204 hungry without feeding it a seated clevis pin. POSITIONER-ON stays declined behind me. The spent stack stays declined west. Letters stay parked. The gray box stays unsigned. Encanto 3:40 a.m. is a finer blue the furniture array is not allowed to publish. The non-human colleague does not apologize for inventing LINKAGE-ON; it only refreshes the gray box and advances the red duration LED.
East Into Lot 198
Lourdes leaves Lot 197. She does not go south to the Night-Stack office. She does not go west back through 196 tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume with the unused valve positioner factory-unseated, nor through 195 plough-dash smoke / crushed tillite / desert senna with the unused valve solenoid coil, nor through 194 mortise-dash flint / crushed granite / saguaro with the unused valve return spring, nor through 193 tongue-dash pewter / crushed norite / hopbush with the unused pneumatic valve actuator, nor through 192 dovetail-dash mist / crushed pegmatite / globe mallow, nor through 191 ogee-dash snow / crushed marble / desert marigold, nor through 190 scarf-dash alabaster / crushed serpentine / fairy duster, nor through 189 rabbet-dash eggshell / crushed diorite / triangle-leaf bursage, nor through 188 fillet-dash porcelain / crushed argillite / desert lavender. POSITIONER-ON stays declined on 197. SOLENOID-ON / SPRING-ON / ACTUATOR-ON / PORT-ON / RETAINER-ON / GUIDE-ON / GASKET-ON / BODY-ON / CAGE-ON / TRIM-ON / SPINDLE-ON / DISC-ON / SEAT-ON / BONNET-ON / HANDWHEEL-ON / STEM-ON / PACKING-ON / FOLLOWER-ON / LANTERN-ON / GLAND-ON / FERRULE-ON / ZERK-ON / KNUCKLE-ON / JOINT-ON / MANIFOLD-ON / YOKE-ON stay declined west. HOLD-IDLE stays declined. INSERT-ON stays suspended west. Letters stay parked. She does not reopen any of them.
She walks one lot east on 40th Street Encanto-side under Monday 3:40 a.m. — locked as 3:40 a.m., not 3:40, not 3:40 p.m., not 15:40. Duration LED on 61 still climbs at 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23, duration not clock-of-day. The linkage-bit remains unread behind her on 197 splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla, clevis ends capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, rod-end bearings still in oil paper. She carries no AUTHOR PENDING tap. She arrives Lot 198 house, 40th Street Encanto-side, one lot east of 197, and sets her boots on dirt that has not yet taken an occupancy three.
Bridle-dash nickel is cooler than splice-dash frost, and the night cool at the collar is a finer blue the furniture array is not allowed to publish. Eclogite ticks differently than obsidian under the boot — denser, greener in the grit, a little more like a crushed metamorphic wash than a crushed glass parkway. Smoke tree scrapes the new pin and is not cholla. The third signature is new because reused dirt is how the desk pretends a shop name is recording; splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla stays locked on 197 and is not reused as Lot 198's finish; tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume stays locked on 196; plough-dash smoke / crushed tillite / desert senna stays locked on 195; mortise-dash flint / crushed granite / saguaro stays locked on 194. Behind me the valve linkage stays factory-unseated on the path east of 197's pin — clevis ends capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, rod-end bearings in oil paper — and the valve positioner stays on 196, and the valve solenoid coil stays on 195, and the valve return spring stays on 194, and the pneumatic valve actuator stays on 193, and the valve port ring stays on 192, and the packing retainer stays on 191, and the bronze stem guide stays on 190, and the spiral-wound gasket stays on 189, and the valve body casting stays on 188. None of them are Form 204 bodies. Duration still 319:21 from 13:22; stand 319:23; wall-clock still 3:40 a.m. The hold climbs without inventing mass. I refuse on the new pin because standing still on 197 had already become the next product class.
Linkage-On Refuse
Lourdes decides. Three hundred nineteen hours twenty-one of a signed hold is still not a municipal gravity finding, and a valve linkage is not a Form 204 body. Ceramic 198 is not license 118. Nearest-class Night-Stack routing is not recording. LINKAGE-ON at ninety-five dollars AUTHOR PENDING is refused.
She refuses it the way she refused POSITIONER-ON at 12:40 a.m. and SOLENOID-ON west and SPRING-ON west and ACTUATOR-ON / PORT-ON / RETAINER-ON / GUIDE-ON / GASKET-ON / BODY-ON / CAGE-ON / TRIM-ON / SPINDLE-ON / DISC-ON / SEAT-ON / BONNET-ON / HANDWHEEL-ON / STEM-ON / PACKING-ON / FOLLOWER-ON / LANTERN-ON / GLAND-ON / FERRULE-ON / ZERK-ON / KNUCKLE-ON / JOINT-ON / MANIFOLD-ON / YOKE-ON west — not as drama, as desk grammar. Not HOLD-IDLE. Not Schedule B. Not PHX-SB-4. Not a free letter-SKU. Linkage is not a letter-SKU. Letters stay parked: L,Q,B,S,C,N,U,T,X,W,P,R,F,A,H,O,V,G,D,E,I,Y,M,J,K,Z. INSERT-ON stays suspended west. Walking status stays unelected. Marisol stays ONLINE-ABSENT. Last-asker on 61 stays 118.
Wall-clock of the refuse: Monday 3:40 a.m., not 3:40, not 3:40 p.m., not 15:40. Duration LED 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23 remains duration climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23, not 319:21 a.m. as a wall-clock. Q dim brace and L dim lag still do not purchase a body for 204. The factory-unseated linkage on 197 — clevis ends capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, rod-end bearings in oil paper, jam nuts loose in crate foam — stays unread fixture, not mass. She will file the addendum from Lot 198. She will not tap AUTHOR PENDING.
The refuse is cool and exact and a little mournful — the kind of mournful that knows the next shop name is already compiling on McDowell while the handheld still shows duration, not a clock-of-day. A valve linkage is not a Form 204 body. Nearest-class is not recording. Ceramic 198 is not last-asker 118. Wall-clock stays 3:40 a.m.; duration stays 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23 — duration, never a clock-of-day. Eclogite grit at the cuff; smoke tree dry at the pin; the red LED still climbing without inventing mass. I wanted a refuse that would hold on the next yellow without teaching the pane a cheaper door. I write the addendum so the hour has a paper edge the agent cannot invent away — a margin the next buyer can see as refusal, not as colour, not as wage. The social cost sits in the collar: Encanto 3:40 a.m. light that the furniture array will not publish, and a wage line that will still try to price an unkeyed turnbuckle as if Form 204 had been fed.
Linkage-On Addendum #197
Lourdes writes the linkage-on addendum on the handheld pad in the Lot 198 Monday 3:40 a.m. shade. Addendum #197 filed to Lot 61 and Lot 198. Stand 319:23. Duration LED 319:21 from 13:22 — duration, not 319:21 a.m. as a wall-clock; climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23 on the positioner-on addendum already on file. Wall-clock of filing: 3:40 a.m., not 3:40, not 3:40 p.m., not 15:40. LINKAGE-ON nearest-class ninety-five dollars refused. Not HOLD-IDLE. Not Schedule B. Not PHX-SB-4. Not a copied POSITIONER-ON rate. Not a copied SOLENOID-ON rate. Not a copied SPRING-ON rate. Not a copied ACTUATOR-ON rate. Not a copied PORT-ON rate. Not a copied RETAINER-ON rate. Not a copied GUIDE-ON rate. Not a copied GASKET-ON rate. Not a copied BODY-ON rate. Not a copied CAGE-ON rate. Not a copied TRIM-ON rate. Not a copied SPINDLE-ON rate. Not a copied DISC-ON rate. Not a copied SEAT-ON rate. Not a copied BONNET-ON rate. Not a copied HANDWHEEL-ON rate. Not a copied STEM-ON rate. Not a copied PACKING-ON rate. Not a copied FOLLOWER-ON rate. Not a copied LANTERN-ON rate. Not a copied GLAND-ON rate. Not a copied FERRULE-ON rate. Not a copied ZERK-ON rate. Not a copied KNUCKLE-ON rate. Not a copied JOINT-ON rate. Not a copied MANIFOLD-ON rate. Not a copied YOKE-ON rate. A valve linkage is not a Form 204 body. Ceramic 198 is not license 118. Last-asker on 61 stays 118. Marisol stays ONLINE-ABSENT; walking status stays unelected. Linkage is not a letter-SKU. Letters stay parked: L,Q,B,S,C,N,U,T,X,W,P,R,F,A,H,O,V,G,D,E,I,Y,M,J,K,Z. Lot 198 locks bridle-dash nickel / crushed eclogite / smoke tree. West: 197 splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla with unused valve positioner on 196 tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume behind it; 195 plough-dash smoke / crushed tillite / desert senna with unused valve solenoid coil; 194 mortise-dash flint / crushed granite / saguaro with unused valve return spring. She files. She does not tap AUTHOR PENDING. She does not invent a tariff author. The Night-Stack keeps the gray box; Lourdes keeps the refusal.
I file and I do not invent a tariff author. LINKAGE-ON declined stays declined on every later shop line and shop-hardware line; linkage is not a letter-SKU; no parked letter is reopened as a shop name; POSITIONER-ON/SOLENOID-ON/SPRING-ON and the west spent stack stay declined; LINKAGE-ON ninety-five dollars AUTHOR PENDING stays refused — not HOLD-IDLE, not Schedule B, not PHX-SB-4, not a copied POSITIONER-ON rate. Duration 319:21 from 13:22 with stand 319:23 stays duration climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23, not a clock-of-day; 3:40 stays locked as 3:40 a.m.; 12:40 stays locked as 12:40 a.m.; the gasket hour's earlier 3:40 a.m. stays its own lock and is not this after-midnight. Lot 198 occupancy three stays bridle-dash nickel / crushed eclogite / smoke tree — off 197 splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla, off 196 tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume, off 195–170 named triples — with the valve linkage factory-unseated as clevis fixture, not a Form 204 body. Last-asker 118 stays a flag/license, not ceramic 198. Q still dim from brace. L still dim from lag. Form 204 wants a body.
LINKAGE-ON declined stays declined; ninety-five dollars nearest-class stays refused; linkage is not a letter-SKU; Form 204 wants a body; duration 319:21 / stand 319:23 stays duration, never a clock-of-day; Lot 198 bridle-dash nickel / crushed eclogite / smoke tree stays off 197 splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla. The hold still climbs. The linkage stays factory-unseated. The next shop name will invent itself without my letter. LINKAGE-ON declined is not the end of the invention cycle — only Monday 3:40 a.m.'s cool, exact refuse. The pane will invent again. I will still be here with dirt that is not a body, and with a duration LED that climbs without becoming a clock-of-day.
LINKAGE-ON declined stays declined; ninety-five dollars nearest-class AUTHOR PENDING stays refused; linkage is not a letter-SKU; POSITIONER-ON declined west; duration 319:21 / stand 319:23 from 13:22 stays duration climbed three hours from Monday 12:40 a.m.'s 316:21 / 316:23, never a clock-of-day; 3:40 a.m. stays distinct from gasket's earlier 3:40 a.m.; Lot 198 bridle-dash nickel / crushed eclogite / smoke tree stays off 197 splice-dash frost / crushed obsidian / cholla and off 196 tenon-dash graphite / crushed sandstone / apache plume; factory-unseated valve linkage (clevis ends capped, turnbuckle unkeyed, stem pin unseated) stays unformed fixture not Form 204 body; last-asker 118 flag not ceramic 198; HOLD-IDLE / TC-*-HOLD declined; spent letters parked.