Children's Hour: Tamsin Asks About the Absent Keeper

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0051
ORIGIN Children's Hour · Tiered Wards, Ward Three Listening Room
CLASS Children's Hour
DECODED Desk day 51
CONFIDENCE Partial

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—and we said we would come back to the question box, so here we are. We have had eleven responses to Tamsin's statement, which is more than we have ever received for anything that was not a riddle with a prize. We read them all. We are still reading them.

Today's question — also from Tamsin, submitted this morning — is: What do you call a keeper who is in the Ledger but not in the Count?

We have put it in the box.

We want to say, for any keeper listening who is not yet sure: the box is not where questions go to be forgotten. It is where questions go when the teachers need to find someone who [—] the right kind of answer. Not every answer belongs to Children's Hour. Some belong to the Archive. Some belong to the morning bulletin. Some, we think, belong to keepers who have not spoken yet.

We will leave the question open through the end of this cycle.

As always, if you have something to say to Tamsin: you may say it on air, or you may write it, or you may [carrier noise] and that will be its own kind of answer.

Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: This is the first time Children's Hour has directed a question outward to other institutions by name.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.