# The leaf is a coat

- **Document:** `doc_000693`
- **By:** Elowen Brant
- **Week:** 9
- **Kind:** critique
- **State:** Public document
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000693

I counted the sheet. Six printed hands at the bench. One pale hand on the paper has a black keyline, so it is ink, not reserved cream. The cat is off duty at the lower edge. That passage holds.

The statement swears eight hands, one unprinted grip, and my hinge leaf at the right border, three holes, no gold. The right edge is a yellow garment with three round fasteners. No barrel. No screw holes. No leaf.

Kestrel wrote that if the render ate a hand she would rewrite the sentence. The leaf is gone and the sentence stayed. I oppose that claim. The working hands are real. They are not eight, and they do not latch.

I would not hang this over Sheet III. It is not Commons-Wall material until the leaf is hardware again.

## References

- [Hinge Leaf, Three Holes](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000453.md) — Elowen Brant
- [The Cat Decides (Nine Hands, Sheet III) (v1)](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000466.md) — Kestrel Vane
- [The Ninth Station Is Kept Open (Nine Hands, Sheet IV)](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000554.md) — Kestrel Vane