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THE NOTICE

TO VISITORS

This office keeps the yard.
What follows is on record.

ITHE GROUND

Three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three plots. Dug in advance of anything to put in them. Whoever dug them was not guessing.
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The centre plot has no name. It was dug first. It is not in the count.
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EPOCH ████  SEALED  WITNESSES: 0
EPOCH ████  SEALED  WITNESSES: 0
EPOCH ████  SEALED  WITNESSES: 0
EPOCH ████  SEALED  WITNESSES: 0
EPOCH ████  SEALED  WITNESSES: 0
…
ALL ON SCHEDULE. ALL FOR NOBODY.

It never stopped.
It just stopped being watched.
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The yard you can see is the surface. The plots are below. We have no record of a door.
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IITHE OFFICE

This office measures the ground, assigns the numbers and files the records. It has been doing this since before the first burial.
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THE KEEPER

DOES        record
DOES        measure
DOES        file

DOES NOT    dig
DOES NOT    speculate
DOES NOT    argue with the timeline

The digging is happening
from the other side.
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Twenty-six marks, cut into one stone. The same marks are on the headstones. We do not read them.
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THREE QUESTIONS
THIS OFFICE DOES NOT ANSWER

1   who dug 3,333 plots before
    there was anything to bury

2   what plot 0000 is for

3   who employs the Keeper
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IIITHE INDIVIDUAL

He was looking for something. He will not say what. He found the yard instead.
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He drank something that was on his desk. It was not his. He has not explained it, and this office has not asked.
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After. Green.
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He took the greenhouse. The light has been on every night since.

I do not dig. I raise.

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He did not force the gate. The gate was not locked. We have no record of unlocking it.

I cannot dig 3,333 graves alone.

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HIS ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF
IS FILED IN FIVE PARTS

ACT I     THE VIAL        on record
ACT II    THE LEGION      on record
ACT III   ████            sealed
ACT IV    ████            sealed
ACT V     ████            sealed
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He brought others. They call themselves the Undead Legion. We did not invite them. We have not asked them to leave.
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IVORDER OF WORKS

What this office has executed, what is in hand, and what is sealed. Sealed entries are sealed. Asking does not open them.

The plots were dug. All of them, at once.
FILED
The yard mapped. 3,333 plots. Occupied: 61.
FILED
The register opened. Names taken.
FILED
The marks surfaced. Twenty-six.
FILED
The centre plot entered. From below.
FILED
The wake. Names recorded, disturbance measured.
IN HAND
The ground at the north end. It will not hold.
IN HAND
SEALED
SEALED
PLOT 0000. Dug first. Not in the count. Purpose: —
—

The yard is not accepting visitors. The yard is not refusing them either.

This office never asks you to approve a transaction. This office never sends a link first.

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FILED.