Entry Closed: He Taught the Draw

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0004
ORIGIN Civic Bulletin Service · Tiered Wards, Ward Three-of-Twelve
CLASS Entry Closed
DECODED Desk day 4
CONFIDENCE High

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The Civic Bulletin Service notes the closing of Fennick Auld, keeper, entered eleven-and-forty years past in Ward Three-of-Twelve, Draw winner in the forty-fourth, fifty-first, and sixty-second cycles.

His allotted task in each winning year: teaching the first gift.

The Ledger carries four hundred and seven entries against his name, received. The entries given number four hundred and nine. The Ledger does not remark on the difference. We remark on it here.

His final gift, entered this morning by his household, is recorded as follows: one evening's explanation, given to a child who had asked what the Draw was for, and who had not expected a long answer.

The child is not named in the entry, as the child has not yet been entered. When that day comes, the gift will already be waiting in the record.

Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: Four hundred and nine given, four hundred and seven received: the Ledger shows the gap without comment, and so do we.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.