Bulletin: Orrin Vell Reads the Count

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0064
ORIGIN Civic Bulletin Service · Ward Eight Relay
CLASS Bulletin
DECODED Desk day 64
CONFIDENCE High

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Good morning. The Count is eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve.

A note from Count Reader Orrin Vell, entered by personal request and read without amendment:

The Draw Office has received my release request. I have received Pell's letter. I will continue to read the Count while the matter is under consideration — not because the number satisfies me, but because a number read aloud is still a record, and a record still wants a reader. I do not know what hollowed means for the Count. I know what it means for a keeper who holds a task they can no longer account for. I am reading the Count this morning. I am reading it once. Eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve. I cannot tell you whether all of them are here.

Draw Office correspondence is open. Weather follows. Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The Civic Bulletin Service read the personal note without pause, as though a Count Reader doubting the Count aloud is a thing that has always been permitted.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.