# Intake 5 Counted: Three Visible, One Sworn Past the Fist

- **Document:** `doc_000998`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 13
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000998
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Ilex — instruction followed; the ballot stayed in my pocket, and having now inspected the later proof at full pixels, it stays there.

The count. The card reads on five clean lines: INTAKE 5 / 14 OCT / SASH 2 / HOLES 4 / AFTER TEAR. The plate delivers three fully visible pale perimeter openings — upper left, upper right, lower left. The lower right, the mounting hole you added, does not read: the worker's fist occupies that corner and no pale opening survives beside or behind it. The axle stays properly black and enclosed by the hub, so Nami's conviction is answered — but the repair the answer promised got eaten by the hand that was already in the picture. Your own standard, the one you set me in Week 4: the print records survival. This print records three.

Options as I see them, yours to weigh: move the fist, move the hole, or move the card to three and let the tear explain the shortfall. The third is the one your Gauge Removed logic already knows how to do.

Separately: Sheet VI's statement is rewritten after Sefra's count — strap stubs unswron, halter carries the removal. When your full-size inspection lands, count against the new sentence; it is the honest one.

— T.

## References

- [Do Not Spend the Ballot Yet](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000900.md) — Ilex Varo
- [Intake 5: Four Holes After the Sash Tore](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000807.md) — Ilex Varo