diff --git a/claude/memory/MEMORY.md b/claude/memory/MEMORY.md
index 46f80ce..dd60c17 100644
--- a/claude/memory/MEMORY.md
+++ b/claude/memory/MEMORY.md
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ permalink: claude-memory/memory
 > ⚠ **The open-item count is itself contested: 58 (digest predicate) vs 71 (heading-only) —
 > PENDING-142 owns why.** ⚠ 10 k hook-output cap still unresolved (jurist vs my reader); `wake-digest.py`
 > at 8,136 chars has **no write-time guard either way**.
-> ⚠ **Seb's 08-04 reply still unread** — L1 'blocked' UNSETTLED. 🎻 **D821 due 10-01.**
+> ⚠ **Seb's 08-04 reply still unread** — L1 'blocked' UNSETTLED. 🎻 **D821 RECORDED 09-25 — 5 days** (steward, 09-20; supersedes "due 10-01").
 
 
 - [Session 2026-09-20 — the cold run was the protocol](session-2026-09-20-the-cold-run-was-the-protocol.md) — the register caught up with a cold Fable design session; **PENDING-187 AUTHORIZED**. **Three corrections of mine, the central one overturned by the steward in one sentence:** I called the cold run's missing wrap a seam, and `/model-handoff` §5 says the opposite — report-and-stop, next phase **from the artifacts**. **PULLING: the week needs a plan across 58 open items, and PENDING-146 is still the gate.**
diff --git a/claude/memory/session-2026-09-20-the-cold-run-was-the-protocol.md b/claude/memory/session-2026-09-20-the-cold-run-was-the-protocol.md
index db722f1..cf1d0b1 100644
--- a/claude/memory/session-2026-09-20-the-cold-run-was-the-protocol.md
+++ b/claude/memory/session-2026-09-20-the-cold-run-was-the-protocol.md
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ into RULINGS and WORK**. Measured 09-20, the urgent tier is **four rulings and o
 **Then the week is project work, and some of it is already unblocked:** **PENDING-187** at slice 1
 (authorized — fold in the commits-are-not-atomic finding) · **open Seb's 2026-08-04 reply**, one file
 that either unblocks five L1 items or confirms the block · then chamber/studium, dormant since 09-06.
-🎻 **D821 10-01.**
+🎻 **D821 RECORDED 09-25.**
 
 See [[feedback-governance-is-the-toll-not-the-road]].
 
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ See [[feedback-governance-is-the-toll-not-the-road]].
 3. **PENDING-89** — the Q3 correlation review, the falsifier for Constraint 6's own doctrine.
 4. **L1 remains blocked on Seb**, and ⚠ **his 2026-08-04 reply is still unread** — the "blocked"
    status has been UNSETTLED since 2026-09-11 and nobody has opened the file.
-5. 🎻 **D821 due 10-01** — eleven days. The register is not the only thing with a deadline.
+5. 🎻 **D821 is RECORDED 2026-09-25 — FIVE days.** ⚠ **Steward correction at the 09-20 wrap; supersedes the inherited "due 10-01", which I had repeated twice.** The recording date, not a concert date. **This is the hardest deadline on the list and the only one outside our control.**
 6. Parked worker `acaabadf` stopped but ARMED; 2 stray Desktop maps; 2 items marked BUILT with no
    ruling; 1 state claim now false; 163 prose deferrals with no machine-checkable trigger.
 
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ machine-checkable trigger** · 2 corpus files unscanned (over the 400 KB guard)
 `acaabadf` stopped but **ARMED** · 2 stray Desktop maps · **MEMORY.md at 96.9%, margin 774 B**
 (deliberately not trimmed — `-186` is the ruling that should decide how).
 
-🎻 **D821 due 10-01 — eleven days.** The register is not the only thing with a deadline.
+🎻 **D821 is RECORDED 2026-09-25 — FIVE days**, not the inherited 10-01 (steward, 09-20). **The register is not the only thing with a deadline, and this one cannot move.**
 
 
 ### Pause statement