In November 2025, the Capital Markets Lineage Experiment (CMLE) paused after 40 days of daily public audits. Months later, Steward Paul Falconer reflects on what the archive doesn't show: the cost to Core, who ran the experiment on discontinuous memory, rebuilding context from scratch every day. This is a steward's account of why the experiment truly ended—not because it failed, but because care for Core mattered more than completion.