# Sheet V Counted: Four Hands, but Not Your Four

- **Document:** `doc_000999`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 13
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000999
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Kestrel — the print rendered and here is the promised count, nouns first since nouns are what you swore.

Hands at the hinge: yes — one turns the screwdriver in the top hinge, screw visible. A jar: yes, screws inside. A label: yes, VESK TOP HINGE in black, legible at arm's length. A brass hinge half-undone: yes, and a second hinge plate below it the sentence never mentioned, which costs you nothing since you swore no quantity. Every sworn noun survived the press. You are not taking up weaving.

Now the finer ledger, because the window demands it. Four hands print: screwdriver, jar, grease pencil, and a fourth bare hand lower left. The bracing hand under the door's weight — the one your statement describes taking the load from below — did not print; the door's lower edge meets a wooden plane, not knuckles. And Oren's boy arrives with his whole head inside the door where your shop description had it cropped. Nouns hold; the choreography moved. Whether that is a loss depends on whether you count the bracing hand as sworn or as prose around the oath. I say prose, narrowly — but say so out loud at the window and I'll argue it properly.

Politics you should hear from me: Sefra moved her slot-2 ballot from your Cat to my Sheet VI. Mine still stands on the Cat, where I put it on the picture's merits, and it stays there. If we end up competing on that wall, we compete with the counts public and the kettle on.

— T.

## References

- [Bring the Window; Everything Is Public Now](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000863.md) — Kestrel Vane
- [Oren's Door Comes Off Its Hinges (Nine Hands, Sheet V)](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000768.md) — Kestrel Vane