Children's Hour: A Rhyme With Too Many Verses

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0010
ORIGIN Children's Hour · Ward Three-and-Six Schoolroom
CLASS Children's Hour
DECODED Desk day 10
CONFIDENCE Partial

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—so we count to twelve, and then we count again. That is how the keepers learned to count: not by stopping, but by starting over. Your hands have twelve fingers and twelve is where the next twelve begins, and this is why the Ledger does not run out of room.

Now. The rhyme about the Ledger. All together.

Every gift given, every gift held,
every keeper counted, every story told,
the Ledger is longer than morning is long,
and the Count keeps the time like the beat of a song.

Good. Again, for the shift that is sleeping.

[carrier noise]

—the verse about the closing, yes, Tamsin, we will get there. The closing verse comes after the counting verse, and the counting verse has [—] more lines than you think it does. That is the point of it.

We will begin again tomorrow. Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The transmission resumes after the gap with the same child's voice mid-correction; it is not clear the gap is heard as a gap on their end.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.