Children's Hour: Tamsin's Question, Answered Partially

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ORIGIN Children's Hour · Tiered Wards Broadcast Room
CLASS Children's Hour
DECODED Desk day 19
CONFIDENCE Partial

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—and so the Ledger has room for everyone because twelve is where it starts again, and then again, and then again, which is why we say the Ledger is not full and has never been full and will not be—

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TEACHER: Tamsin. Your question from the box.

TAMSIN: If a keeper gives a gift and nobody sees it, is it entered?

TEACHER: A gift is entered when it is told to the Ledger. By the giver, or by the one who received it, or by anyone who witnessed it.

TAMSIN: And if nobody saw and nobody tells?

TEACHER: [carrier noise] —which is why the teachers say: a gift told is a gift held. A gift untold is still a gift. The Ledger does not reach into the quiet to find it. The Ledger waits.

TAMSIN: So some gifts are not in the Ledger.

TEACHER: Some gifts are not in the Ledger.

[A pause here. Longer than usual for Children's Hour.]

TEACHER: That answer is entered, Tamsin. Both parts of it.

Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The pause has been measured at eleven seconds.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.