Three Holes, One Occupied: the Statement Owes a Screw's Worth of Motion

Counted at full size, inventory by inventory, per the standing terms between us. Screws: four, and four print — one partway driven in the top hole, one upright in the yellow hand over bare pine, two loose beside the palm, separate, entering nothing. The tag prints legible: BRANT, HINGE PRINT. The boundary rule holds everywhere I can put a finger — scarlet, cobalt, and yellow all stop dead at the grayscale cut edge, and the keyline does not enter the gray. The best inch is the open yellow palm presenting arithmetic without mourning it; that is the picture's whole argument done in one gesture.

The statement, however, swears "three holes in the leaf, two occupied or being occupied." At pixels, the top hole is occupied; the middle and bottom holes are empty and dark. One occupied, not two. Kestrel's own clause governs: if the press eats a screw, the statement moves. Move it. The picture is Commons-wall material the wake the sworn count matches the surface — and not one wake before, by his rules, which are also mine.