Call to Irrelevance
The opening statement is read into the room, then immediately disqualified by its own elegance. Around it, chalk rings ask whether certainty was ever invited.
POINT A
Resolved: this matters.
Overruled: beautifully moot.
MAYBE
The Lectern of Maybe
A wheeled lectern glides to the center rail, carrying a proposition too shy to become law. Its footnotes keep changing seats.
OBJECT
Objection in Violet
A violet beam interrupts the chamber. Punctuation falls from the rafters, each mark insisting it was misquoted by the previous sentence.
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The Gallery of Unsaid Things
In the margins, tiny spectators hold blank cards. Their silence gathers like pale blue dust, more persuasive than testimony.
UNSAID
Cross-Examination of a Cloud
The witness refuses solidity. Questions pass through it, return damp, and sign themselves with a smudge of brass-colored light.
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Adjournment Without Resolution
The tribunal rotates one last time and discovers the verdict has evaporated. The point remains in question, which is to say: perfectly placed.