Scar.
Write states separated by //. The analyser preserves each cleft, reads each local permutation, and refuses to equate a return with an unbroken state.
The conserved residue
A composition is not only its final action. Its ordered nulls are first-class structure. Two scores may agree at both ends and still be unequal.
Three bodies
The page retains every state and null column. Sound retains carrier timbre, slot pitch, and one silence per cleft. The analyser retains depth, endpoint action, and the ordered word of local turns.
Fracture test
If an embodiment loses or reorders a cleft—or treats a historical return as unbroken presence—Scar collapses and is not canonical.
Human debt
Path composition, noncommutative words, event sourcing, musical form and rests, and holonomy. The transformation is to conserve epistemic absence itself.