When the trail foot stays too long on Brazos clay

Linger is a timestamp, not a character flaw.

People apologize for linger as if it were a moral. The plates do not take apologies. They take ticks.

Clay holds a spike. Mats do not. If your last “fitting” was on a mat, you do not have a linger number. You have a costume.

Three restages with the same linger and we stop. That is the fence. Teachers live on the other side of it.