The grip, the breath, the first movement. Again: the grip, the breath, the first movement. Imagine a player trying to return to a beginning that once asked almost nothing of them. This time, careful repetition makes it feel farther away.
The Lost Service Box gives that experience a place. In one fragment it disappears whenever someone insists on beginning in precisely the old way. The Tale calls this punishment. The marginalia more often describes the loss of a once-reliable starting point.
Those are different accounts of the same hurt. One asks what the player did to deserve it. The other asks what has changed.
The Fool and the Tower belong near the Repeated Asking here. A familiar structure has stopped delivering a familiar result. The player may need help seeing why, a smaller experiment or time away from the attempt. The old ease cannot be demanded back by performing its preparation more fiercely.
On the ordinary court, the service box is still marked. In this fragmentary place, it is the way of beginning that has gone missing. The next useful attempt may feel unfamiliar before it feels right.