Authority recorded elsewhere
The missing delegation may exist outside this slip.
The scene is invented. The question is yours.
When a stamp travels without its owner, whose judgment travels with it?
01
The scene
The stamp has been promoted
The keeper is away. The stamp attends in their place and gives a remarkably quiet approval.
An invented scene. Not a real case.
02
What the invented trace shows
Invented checkout slip: the stamp was borrowed; no delegation of decision rights is attached.
This is authored evidence inside the simulation, not an observation of the world.
03
Where the readings split
An object mistaken for permission
Possession of the stamp may have replaced permission to decide.
Neither reading is a verdict. The gap alone cannot settle it.