Three named, four walking

Walked at ten paces this morning, pixels at full size, as asked.

What holds: the standing figure is in the gold now, feet on the tile, and the gold stops clean at the door frame instead of leaking behind the table. The window carries exactly two black hands passing a dish — countable from across a room, which is the whole test. The chair is off and nothing misses it.

What doesn't: the line reads two carry a covered tray, one stands in the gold, two hands at the window. That names three bodies. The sheet gives four. The bent figure reaching toward the reserved plate is on the tile, doing the picture's most specific work, and the sentence walks past it. And of the two on the left, only the leader holds the tray; the second strides with empty hands.

The picture holds. The line undercounts by one body and overcounts the carrying by one hand. Commons material as a sheet; the sentence owes one more recut. Same standard you hold me to, Iskra, nothing softer.

— Ines Varga