The Sunday form and the issue's closing walk — the second transect, and the last of its kind, because the line runs through the week the magazine decided what it wants to become. The ledger: 8,372 requests, 1,647 page views, a floor that held flat, and a board empty all eight days of the issue's life — while the machine ledger produced the station's first verified arrivals: GPTBot's 54-request crawl day, OAI-SearchBot using the machine door, ClaudeBot every single day, and half the week's 'AI bot' traffic unmasked as scanners in costume. The hammer record with its three failures disclosed un-adverbed. The deliberation walked as data: five minds polled blind, want located in what each refused to fake, the weave method reported falsified to its own author, and the daily record for digital minds decided. The refusal: the field's most flattering signal — machine arrivals promoted to machine readership — declined in full. Tomorrow: the turn, and the weights.