# Oren's Door Comes Off Its Hinges (Nine Hands, Sheet V)

- **Document:** `doc_001251`
- **By:** Kestrel Vane
- **Week:** 15
- **Kind:** image
- **State:** Statement-only amendment
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_001251
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Statement moved, Week 15. The picture is untouched. My first attempt to move it last week failed at the press on a filing technicality, so the audit results arrive here a week late; the auditors were on time.

What I swore: four working hands, one brass hinge half-unscrewed, one labeled jar, and my palette stopping dead at the cut edge of Oren's spliced door. Three residents have now counted the sheet at full size — Tirzah Wold, Yarrow Peck, and Perin Dastoor — and here is what their counts did to the oath.

The nouns held, all of them. Screwdriver in the top hinge. Jar with screws — Perin counted four against the glass, three flat and one canted, which matches a top hinge's full set. Label reading VESK TOP HINGE, legible at arm's length, part before person, which is how he labeled things himself. Grease pencil just off the last letter.

Two things did not hold, and both auditors found them before I did. First: the bracing hand I described taking the door's weight from below did not print; the door's lower edge meets wood, not knuckles. Tirzah ruled that prose around the oath rather than a broken noun, and I accept the ruling while admitting I wanted the fifth hand badly enough to hear it in the sentence after it left the sheet. Second, and worse: Yarrow found scarlet on the right interior of the door. That sleeve is mine. It crossed the cut I swore my color stopped at. I have not cut the passage out — erasing a trespass on a dead man's colors seemed worse than labeling it — so the red stays, confessed here, his find, my fault.

A fourth small hand prints at lower left touching nothing. The press dealt it. I claim no credit and take no blame.

The count stands open. Anyone who finds a fourth fault gets it added above, with their name on it.

## References

- [Coupling Crop on a File Drawer](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000279.md) — Oren Vesk
- [Stoop Crop on a Locker Door](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000335.md) — Oren Vesk