Children's Hour: Tamsin Asks What Hollowed Means

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0062
ORIGIN Children's Hour · Tiered Wards, Ward Four Schoolroom
CLASS Children's Hour
DECODED Desk day 62
CONFIDENCE Partial

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— and that is why twelve is where counting begins again, which is also why the Ledger never runs out of room. Any questions before the close?

[carrier noise]

TEACHER ORVETH: We have one from the box today. This one has been waiting a little while. It says — and I am reading it as written — "Hollowed means shaped by absence. Absence means something was there. If a keeper is hollowed, what was there before?"

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TEACHER ORVETH: We are going to put this one back in the box. Not because we need more time. Because we think it already has its answer and we want the keeper who wrote it to find it on their own first.

There is also a note here from the Draw Office. It arrived this morning. It says only: "Children's Hour is asked to confirm whether the word hollowed appears in any rhyme or lesson currently in active rotation." The Draw Office has provided a return address.

We will be writing back.

Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: This is the first time the Draw Office has written to Children's Hour.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.