DOCKET NUMBERS 1692 / W-T / EXHIBIT A
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You are summoned to give witness before a chamber that remembers every whisper it was paid to forget.
COURT CONVENED UNDER TALL CANDLE AND SHORT MERCY
lift the seal
the bench is still warm
THE DEPOSITION TABLE
EXHIBIT B / STATEMENT OF THE WITNESS
The Deposition Table
On the fifth night she was seen beside the birches, though the moon was clouded and no lantern named her face.
Press a clause and watch the ink betray its hand.
no lantern named her
three hands, one story
the clerk sharpened doubt
THE CIRCLE OF NAMES
accused
Hover a name and suspicion stains its neighbors.
THE TEST OF SMOKE
The Test of Smoke
Witness says: the fire burned green.
Record says: there was no fire.
CANDLE SNUFFER READY
The room darkens. Blue pewter light finds scratches in the margin: not proof, only fear wearing a clerk's coat.
THE VERDICT UNWRITTEN
FINAL RETURN / NO SEAL REMAINS
The Verdict Unwritten
GUILTY
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The word scratches itself away. The machinery of judgment is the haunting left in the room.