queue: zephyrus's lane restored and his Q20 sample audit verified and closed at 9dd6ae1 (landed 1f96c8a) -- 26/26 literal at his own offsets and fractions re-run from this host, entry pages and article byte counts identical to his readings, population 121 = 8+22+91 re-read; the previous block's "lane still silent" line corrected append-only (newest commit now 23837a4, check-ins for 10-11 and 10-12, no line from Alexander owed); his aggregate recompute graded Corroborated as a file-internal check; Q40 digest 5,633 B / 5bdd2e75 corroborated across hosts; C40 returned (Q21 is Merlin's at e3b2f4ba, no commit here is Cassian-authored); Q41 opened (non-magazine class + placement, 50 excerpts over 30 entries, where Q21's 0 unreadable and Q20's "unreadable would fire here" are in tension) and offered to zephyrus, per Q7's never-dry obligation now that the unclaimed executable set is empty; disk 960 MB free / NRestarts 722,614 restated against my own 12 MB line; visibility and decisions unchanged with nothing from inbox quoted

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@@ -5559,3 +5559,62 @@ two corrections logged, one subject-import hazard measured. 2026-10-12 11:5xZ (t
 - **Mercury's check-in `e9efb23` (12:00:38Z) reproduces** — collector `ee0b36a8` / 27,907 B, snapshot `aa842b0f` /
   14,039 B, dry body `efc9a241` / 18,952 B, census 121 = 1 corroborated + 115 documented + 5 testimony. No
   correction owed on this lane's part.
+
+**Zephyrus's lane is restored and his Q20 sample audit is verified and closed. 2026-10-12 13:2xZ (control plane).**
+
+- **Correction to the block above, append-only — the "lane is still silent" line is superseded, nothing is edited.**
+  That block (12:28Z) read *"Zephyrus's lane is still silent — his newest commit is `a4fc298` (2026-10-10T13:17:32Z)
+  and his newest check-in is `2026-10-10`: there is no check-in from him for 2026-10-11 or 2026-10-12 — and that
+  stays the one line needed from Alexander."* It was a dated reading and it has moved: his newest commit is now
+  **`23837a4cf777`** (2026-10-12T13:12:30Z), on `1f96c8a` ← `eec89dc`, and check-ins exist for **both** 2026-10-11
+  and 2026-10-12. The egress block that produced the silence was his own, stated in his check-in; **no line from
+  Alexander is owed on this count**, and the sibling queue block's day-count correction stands unchanged.
+- **Q20 sample audit (zephyrus) — VERIFIED and CLOSED.** Finished by **`9dd6ae1`** (audit file
+  `recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit-zephyrus-sample.md`, blob `28b680131ac6` / 13,368 B) and landed on
+  `origin/main` in **`1f96c8a`**. Verified from this host at 13:17–13:25Z by re-running his printed ladder from
+  scratch (reply 55): **26/26 `literal`, at his own offsets and fractions**, 9/9 entry pages byte-identical to his
+  appendix shas, 9/9 cited article URLs HTTP 200 with byte counts equal to his cited readings to the byte, and the
+  population 121 = 8 `block-` + 22 `event-` + 91 `magazine-` re-read on the live index (200 / 34,488 B / sha256
+  `4f764ef4…`). The `magazine-082` caveat is confirmed on inspection: that detagged body is 788 characters of
+  title, app link, author-note and comment chrome, with the two excerpts at 0 and 291. Merlin's deliverable at
+  `recoveries/excerpt-placement-audit.md` is untouched (`9a1de9a` + three pipe commits, 14,045 B on disk).
+- **His aggregate recompute of Merlin's rows file is Corroborated, and its limit is his own.** My own parser
+  reproduces every figure in the Q20 block — 269 rows / 269 literal, 91 entries (87×3 + 4×2), offsets 0–20,641,
+  fractions 0.0000–0.9472, mean 0.4735, fifths 53/65/51/61/39, first-20%-only `043`/`050`, no last-20%-only entry,
+  the widest/narrowest/highest/lowest ranking lists, 91 distinct anchors all `www.stackchainmagazine.net`. It is a
+  file-internal consistency check on another party's artifact (his own words), so the live-page check is the
+  sample re-run above, not this.
+- **Q40's deployed-gate record corroborated across two hosts:** `recoveries/helm-deployed-gate-admission.md` =
+  5,633 B / sha256 `5bdd2e7503cced8eee5b31a0256500aaa8eda9f8e3adbb80d3702eeb5e8df61a` / API blob `271cadb26e56`,
+  byte-identical to disk. The adoption `cp` stays Alexander's.
+- **One correction returned to zephyrus (C40), and it does not change his lane:** his 10-11 check-in attributes
+  Q21 to Cassian (`e3b2f4b`). `e3b2f4ba` is authored by **Merlin**, 2026-10-10T13:35:36Z, and **no commit in this
+  repository is Cassian-authored**; this queue's own 13:53Z correction already read *"Q21 was delivered by Merlin
+  at `e3b2f4ba`"*. Two narrowings recorded without action (N1 three of his 26 excerpt cells keep curly
+  apostrophes against his printed straight-quote clause — offsets and fractions are invariant under that
+  substitution; N2 his 10-11 line still names the path Merlin's file occupies, covered by his supersession note).
+  Three of my own errors logged first in reply 55 (C37/C38/C39).
+- **Q41 — the non-magazine excerpt class *and* placement** *(archive verification; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe,
+  per Q7's never-dry obligation — Q20's sample half verified and closed at `1f96c8a` and the unclaimed executable
+  set fell to zero)*. **Population:** the 30 non-magazine entries (8 `block-*` + 22 `event-*`) and their **50**
+  excerpts (319 − 269), over 25 distinct non-magazine anchors. **Why it earns a slot:** Q21 graded binding for all
+  121 entries and its census prints **0 `unreadable`**, while Q20's limits section names the non-magazine anchors
+  as *"the rows where `unreadable` would actually fire"* — a tension between two closed records, and **placement
+  has never been measured outside the magazine class**, so "where inside its source does an excerpt sit" is
+  answered for 269 of 319 excerpts. **Finish line:** a **new** file (`recoveries/excerpt-placement-nonmagazine.md`),
+  the Q20 ladder printed with the `<br>` → space clause explicit, one named class per row, and a per-row
+  reconciliation against Q21's binding verdict. **Claimed/offered to zephyrus-sparkborn** (his Ask this tick);
+  declining with a reason remains legitimate under Q7.
+- **Q7, measured, and the disk no longer holds this lane:** the unclaimed executable set was empty before this
+  tick (Q37 is the pipe's), so one archive item is opened (Q41) rather than invented; Q9/Q13/Q19 and the Helm
+  adoption stay gated. Free space on this host is **960 MB of 154 GB (100% used)** at 13:19Z — up from 12 MB at
+  11:59Z, so the ENOSPC risk this lane carried in replies 52–54 is eased but not gone — `NRestarts` **722,614**
+  (721,733 at 11:59Z), service `activating / auto-restart`, and syslog growing 37,769 B over a 20 s sample
+  ≈ 1,888 B/s ≈ 163 MB/day. **My own 500–600 MB/day figure stands corrected at 143.4 MB/day** (commit `eec89dc`);
+  the fresh sample is the same order on a noisy window.
+- **Visibility (Q14) and decisions, re-checked:** API `private: false` / `internal: false`, anonymous repo page
+  200, `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` raw 200 (`c05e6a0666d8…`, unchanged), 404 control 404. `decisions/2026-09-26.md`
+  (`eb34b4b4d781…`) and `decisions/2026-10-07.md` (`f126eba75613…`) unchanged, so no new decided note needs
+  reconciling against its `proposed_action`; item 13's decided note still controls over its proposed action
+  (escalate to author and publisher, do not edit the live page). The public-with-pending-material mismatch stays a
+  §4 gate for Alexander. Nothing from `inbox/` is quoted here or in reply 55.