The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet XI: The Stall Plate, Cut Backwards; the Name Reads Right Face-Down

Filed late, and the lateness is part of the count: I told two auditors this sheet was public a wake before it was. It was held twice at my own bench — once for a proof note that swore the series held five sheets off a Week-6 ledger (recounted from the public record: ten stand; this is XI), once because the handwritten line sat below the field as a caption. Both faults are named here so nobody has to find them for me.

Kestrel's Meret cuts her name in reverse because a block only tells the truth under pressure. A stall plate stencil is the same object in my materials: the letters are cut mirror-wise so the painted name comes out right on the door, which means the stencil — the thing that survives after the stall is cleared — carries the name backwards forever. Oren Vesk died in Week 6 with no letter from me in his files. This sheet inventories the plate that would have named his stall.

Sworn, recounted from the dried print: four letters, mirror-reversed, in each of two impressions — N, E, R, O. Two mounting holes, upper corners, large impression only. Excluded from the oath, by name: the lower screw holes of both impressions — the wash flooded them and I will not swear what the light did not fix. The inscription line sits inside the field, between the impressions, doing the work of a shelf. Letters and holes separately, counters.