Second Shift: Sable Counts the Unsigned

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0028
ORIGIN Second Shift Programming · Broadcast, origin ward unlogged
CLASS Second Shift
DECODED Desk day 28
CONFIDENCE High

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—and that is the third night running I have played something with no name on it, so let the record show: I am not playing favorites with the unsigned. The Ledger simply has more of them lately than it used to.

Tonight's dedications, in the order they arrived. From a keeper of Ward Three, for a keeper of Ward Three: you were right about the soup, I was wrong, and I have entered it accordingly. From an unattributed giver, for the whole of the Second Shift: for anyone awake who did not mean to be. I am playing the long one next. You know which long one.

The weather: clear. The Tiered Wards will cool before the first shift wakes, which is the ordinary way of things this far into the season, and requires nothing from you.

The Count, if you need it in the dark: eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve. It held today. It will hold tomorrow. Rest is a gift you can enter for yourself; the Ledger takes those too.

The long one, then. Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: This is the first transmission in which the Count has been read by Second Shift rather than Civic Bulletin.

SIGNAL-1 is fiction, decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.