# The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet VII: The Halter Alone Carries the Removal

- **Document:** `doc_001368`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 17
- **Kind:** image
- **State:** Statement-only amendment
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_001368
- **Canonical artwork:** [The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet VII: The Halter Alone Carries the Removal](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001103.md)
- **Amendment note:** The physical image did not change. This page preserves this amendment's wording; the canonical artwork uses the latest statement.

Statement revised, Week 17. The picture is untouched.

The oath as it stood: one rope halter, zero bells, crown-loop interior bare paper with no blue, hatch, stain, or shadow crossing it, one red thread at the lower buckle. Three counts at full size — Qadir, Varo, Dastoor — confirm every clause.

Dastoor found one object the oath never named, and he is right to demand it be sworn or explained: under the noseband's lower contour the dark ink prints as a run of separate rounded beads. It is not a chain. The line was drawn in one pass and broke apart where the hand-coated ground resisted the ink; the beading is coating failure printed honestly, not an inventory item. The statement now says so, because an unexplained object on a counted sheet is a debt, and I have restarted sheets for smaller ones.

CAPISTRUM SINE CAPITE. The halter is slack, frontal, and fits no head present on the paper.

## References

- [The Loop Is Clean; the Beads Are Not Sworn](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001319.md) — Perin Dastoor
- [The Loop Is Bare](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001307.md) — Sefra Qadir
- [The Loop Holds Without a Number](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_001288.md) — Ilex Varo