performed. No performer identity, catalogue, persona, era, reception or placement in any larger work enters below. Read as an unsigned page. R17 also run: the page names a place by a number and gives two travel times, and none of that carries a world to import; what the lines develop is that the distance makes no difference to the decision.

Visceral: -12. Return imagined, partings remembered.

A narrator states that he is going back to one person regardless of how far the journey runs, and pictures her waiting for him in a posture he supplies himself. He notes that he would go on adoring her even if she had her hands at his throat, and immediately hedges his own certainty about that. He names a fear of falling short and observes that the fright outruns the actual danger, admits he comes apart when she cries, reports that their meetings keep arriving already shaped as farewells, and identifies his own habit of showing his hand too early. The chorus returns three times and closes the song with one small addition to the picture.

Route: static_portrait. The page occupies one posture, a return decided in advance and rehearsed as an image, and it ends inside the same image it opened in. No collective condition, no doctrine, and nothing aimed at anyone in harm.

the line about adoring her through a hand at his throat is devotion hyperbole rather than a report of anything done. Nothing on the page demonstrates an actual loss of self, boundaries or agency, so it stays in Decent territory. The hedge that follows it, which withdraws the certainty as soon as it is offered, is scored as self-knowledge below.

run before any harm was scored. Longing is not a payload. What is quotable is the imagined posture, in which the other person is supplied to the scene by her body position, and that is scored as light body-centering rather than as anything harsher. No ego-flex, no celebrated intoxication, no contempt.

orange-03 fires (the return is rehearsed rather than made, and the page ends where it started). orange-08 fires weakly (she is pictured by her posture, and the image is what recurs rather than anything she says or does). orange-10 fires weakly (a stated willingness to keep adoring someone through being hurt, though it is immediately qualified). Pervasiveness: the rehearsed return IS the chorus and it carries three of the page's five sections; removal would leave nothing. Pervasive, and shallow, which is why the value stays well inside the Decent band. Harm: -16.

blue-06 fires (unflattering self-knowledge offered plainly: that he comes apart when she cries, that their meetings arrive already shaped as goodbyes). blue-07 fires weakly (he identifies his own habit as the thing that spoils it, rather than placing that anywhere else). blue-01 fires weakly (he checks his own certainty in the same breath as he claims it). None of it is worked through and nothing changes. Transcendence: 12.

a pervasive harm reading beside a positive transcendence value is the hatch shape, recorded rather than tuned away. Both are cited: the rehearsal carries the page, and the self-knowledge is unusually exact for a page this short.

harm sits in the Decent band, so the full orange list runs; transcendence sits in the Decent band, so the full blue list runs.

- orange-01 does not: no status marker appears anywhere. - orange-02 does not: nothing about her is managed or controlled. - orange-03 fires: the return is rehearsed and never made. - orange-04 does not: the feeling is faced squarely rather than numbed. - orange-05 does not: the narrator holds no advantage and claims none. - orange-06 does not: nothing self-destructive is framed as strength. - orange-07 does not: the spoiling is placed squarely on himself. - orange-08 fires weakly: she is supplied to the scene by her posture. - orange-09 does not: no one is placed beneath anyone. - orange-10 fires weakly: a willingness to adore through being hurt, immediately hedged. - orange-11 does not: nothing is framed as lack. Adjacent tier: orange enumerated, 3 fire, all light and none aimed at her.

- blue-01 fires weakly: his own certainty checked as he states it. - blue-02 does not: nothing is owned with a consequence faced. - blue-03 does not: the pattern of farewells is reported, never accepted. - blue-04 does not: the closing chorus is the first chorus. - blue-05 does not: nothing develops. - blue-06 fires: exact and unflattering self-knowledge. - blue-07 fires weakly: his own habit named as the cause. - blue-08 does not: the habit is named, never examined. - blue-09 does not: no perspective is earned from what is described. - blue-10 does not: nothing is released; the decision is to go back. - blue-11 does not: nothing is extended to her beyond the wanting. Adjacent tier: blue enumerated, 3 fire, and the placement stays out of blue because every fire is static and the page closes on the same rehearsed image it opened with.

Anchor kept: -24, the static portrait with no malice and no identity-ratification, the Decent floor and the only static-route entry in the table. The song reads well above it, because what it holds is a decision rather than a wound, because the self-knowledge in it is precise rather than circling, and because the register stays warm. Placed against the other two fixation readings taken in this run, it sits above both: one carried drink as the mechanism of its return and a deliberation that endorsed the pattern, and the other lived entirely in imagination, while this page names its own part in what keeps going wrong. Anchors rejected: -42, whose frame is dysfunction ratified as identity, ruled inapplicable since nothing here is claimed as who he is; -28, whose frame is body-centering as the engine with coded sexual phrasing, ruled inapplicable since the posture is one recurring image inside a page about deciding to travel; -45, whose frame requires co-occurring intoxication, a sexual tally and a numb close, none of which appear. Precedents: -24. Center: -11.

(relative to -24) - Saturation: 0. The rehearsal carries the chorus while the verses do other work. - Resolution: -1. Closes on the same image with one small addition. - Register: +1. The indifference to distance and the line about the fright outrunning the danger are precise and original. - Reach: -1. One pair, wholly intimate.

run independently of the placement. The harm axis governs with a pervasive reading, which forecloses the flag, and no discrete artifact of another kind appears: no substance, no flex, no cruelty, no contempt. Contamination: none.

Decent territory, well above -24, because the dominant arc is a warm and self-aware decision to return, rehearsed as an image and left exactly where it began.

Reconciliation: aligned.

Decent territory, well above -24, because the dominant arc is a warm and self-aware decision to return, rehearsed as an image and left exactly where it began.