Draw Office: Orrin Vell Accepts the Procedure

TRANSMISSION SIGNAL-1/0073
ORIGIN Draw Office · Administrative Record, Tiered Wards
CLASS Draw Office
DECODED Desk day 73
CONFIDENCE High

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Inquiry-open file, reference 73-V. Subject: Release request, Count Reader, Ward Eight.

Draw Officer Hesk, dictating for the record.

The drafting period for a release procedure has received its first formal response from a keeper with standing to give one. Orrin Vell, acting Count Reader by assignment, has submitted a written acknowledgment of the drafting period. He neither withdraws his request nor presses it. He writes, and I am entering this verbatim, that he will hold the task as long as the procedure requires to be written, because a task held badly is still a task held, and [—] the Count should be read by someone.

He also writes that he has no opinion on Maren Sole's request, except that it should be resolved before his, as it was filed first. This office notes it cannot currently resolve either.

A keeper cannot be hollowed into a task or out of one. We are writing a procedure, not an answer.

The Count, for reference, stands at eleven-and-eleven thousand, four hundred and twelve. This office made no request for today's reading. We are recording that fact again, because we are recording everything now.

Inquiry-open. No further action today. Quiet Hour follows.

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Intercept Desk note: The Draw Office has never before filed a transmission that ends as a bulletin ends.

Decoded with machine assistance at The Sixth Lense Intercept Desk.