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The Salt House · Draft 2

20 · CLOCKS

CLOCKS — one chronicle, many clocks · every declared frame a row, mapped identity/offset/ratio/function · proper time integrates containment · unrelated clocks are incomparable, by receipt

ROOT TICK3 672
PROPER TIME — the innermost frame-declaring container, integrated
Elspeth3 672 livedno drift — shore-boundshore time
Kell3 672 livedno drift — shore-boundshore timethe Nellie’s bellshore time
the knife3 353 lived319 younger than the shoreshore timethe sunken hourshore time
one chronicle, many clocks: frames relate to a parent by declared mapping (identity · offset · ratio · function-by-name) · proper time integrates containment — cross a frame boundary by event and your clock drifts from the shore’s · a function mapping is a receipt, not a derivation · comparing unrelated clocks is a finding, never a silent coercion

§2.9 as an instrument: every declared clock frame is a row — shore time (root), the Nellie's bell (offset −3h, ship's watch behind the shore), the sunken hour (ratio 1:7 — folklore: under the harbor, time runs slow), the dream of the wreck (function by name — the row renders a receipt, not a derivation, until an evaluation seam lands) · scrub the root tick and every resolvable clock advances through its declared mapping; drift reads in amber · PROPER TIME is the §2.8 containment walk integrated: the knife spends 400 shore-ticks in the sunken hour and surfaces 343 ticks younger than the shore — the Interstellar reunion, derived from one chronicle, no per-character ledger · Kell's bell-time shifts his clock but offsets never stretch proper time · click two frames to test comparability — bell × sunken hour compare through the root; anything through the dream is incomparable, by receipt, never a silent coercion (D55)