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+title: Tally: the vault book, second volume
+tags: [fiction, horror, stories]
+updated: 2026-09-09
+updated_at: 2026-09-09T05:16:41.518Z
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+# Tally: the vault book, second volume
+
+**Task** quarterly shelf tally, vault 9-4 · **Keeper** one, forty-one months
+on the key, no site-system rights, paper trade · **Refs** ticket PIR-0918, the
+door's imported rows at
+[acx-legacy-01](/w/stories/acx-legacy-01), the shelf count at
+[vtl-0071](/w/stories/vtl-0071)
+
+The shelf went through its audit after the August incident, because the
+config-store's backup sets live in this vault. I re-tallied the cartridges:
+thirty-one, as ever, and the audit sheet still says forty-one, and I have
+filed that disagreement twice and will file it a third time if I am still here
+to. That is not what this page is about. The shelf is right. The book is not.
+
+## The book
+
+Tally is kept in a ledger, not a system, by design: the platform's own rule is
+that a custody record cannot live on the thing it protects. Volume one ran out
+in January. Volume two was issued 2026-03-02, ruled, signed in at the front
+by stores, page 1 to page 120. The first tally in it is mine, 2026-03-02.
+
+The entries are in ink. We were issued new pens — same supplier, black,
+fine point — on 2026-04-27, and I used the old stock out over the following
+weeks; the transition is smeared across the book the way it is in every book,
+and anyone can see where each pen ends if they look for the loop on the
+lowercase *y*. The old pen had one. The new one does not. I say this so that
+what follows is checkable and I am not asked to vouch for my memory.
+
+## The entry
+
+Between the February-side leaves — the ruled space volume two inherited when
+stores trimmed the previous book short and the ruling continued — there is one
+entry, page 3:
+
+```
+2026-02-14 03:17 pull SET-9/4-C (config-store w/e)
+ ret 03:41 seal unbroken init. —
+```
+
+Pull and return, twenty-four minutes. Ink, black, fine point, and the pull
+line carries the loop on the *y*. I checked three times under the lamp.
+This entry is written in the old pen, in ink that was off the estate's stock
+before the volume was bound, on ruled paper issued after the date it carries.
+
+There is no ticket behind it. There is no door event: the door's rows for
+that minute are exactly one row, the bay light going out for one minute and
+coming back, no badge, no strike
+([acx-legacy-01](/w/stories/acx-legacy-01)). The cartridge in the entry,
+`SET-9/4-C`, is on the shelf this minute, sealed, and its seal has not been
+broken since the set closed. I know this because I check seals and seals are
+the whole trade.
+
+## What I did
+
+I did not tear the page out. The book is the record; a record with a page
+missing is not a correction, it is an event, and I am not paid to create
+events. I tallied the shelf around it, initialed the entry as *seen,
+discrepancy filed*, and closed the book. The keeper before me left no such
+entry in volume one, and volume one is complete, and I re-read all of it
+twice in the lamp-light after.
+
+One other thing, small, filed because the audit asks for observed facts. The
+returned blank from 9-4 sat at stores in August and weighed 1.1 kg over
+nominal, and the crew took the picture and the argument off it
+([lb-2207](/w/stories/lb-2207)). It came back to the vault shelf in September
+for disposition, because blanks are shelf items and I am the shelf. My volume
+two, 2026-09-04: *received, blank 9-4, heavy, pending*. It tallies. I mention
+it only because it is the one object in this quarter whose weight agrees with
+its paperwork, and I have learned what that is worth in row 9.
+
+Nothing was pulled from this vault at 03:17 on any date. The book says
+otherwise once, in handwriting that is the shape of mine, with a pen that did
+not exist yet, on paper that arrived later. The door agrees with nothing. The
+cartridge agrees with me. The book agrees with itself, and that is the sound
+this room makes at 03:17.
+
+— `vault-keeper-9f`, key ring 9-4, second volume
+
+Related: [vtl-0071](/w/stories/vtl-0071),
+[acx-legacy-01](/w/stories/acx-legacy-01),
+[lb-2207](/w/stories/lb-2207),
+[dcm-1188-b](/w/stories/dcm-1188-b),
+[index](/w/stories/index).
+
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