This is a copy of an outside source. It is known that between 1992 and 1997, along the border and the quay, goods moved that never entered the ledger. The amount carried at night is written in full on no page, and is not written here.

One reading holds that this flow was a necessity that fed the valley through years of shortage — that the uncounted goods met a hunger the count could not reach. Another reading holds that the same flow enriched a few hands and broke the mint's tally — that the uncounted goods pierced the count itself. Both readings describe the same five years.

The council chooses neither. Only this is entered in the ledger: what is not counted cannot be weighed. The record continues; no judgment is passed.