SITUATION
The drawer holds.
This was the third attempt this month to reach the back of it. Forward progress stopped at a spatula. The spatula is not hostile. It is simply there, and it has been there longer than anyone can account for, and nobody is prepared to be the one who removes it.
Enemy strength in the second drawer is assessed at seven. That figure is not firm. Two of the seven may be the same clip counted twice, because none of them have names, and a force without names cannot be inventoried properly. This has been raised before. It will be raised again.
ENEMY DISPOSITION
Of the seven, four are inoperable. One has lost tension and no longer closes on anything. One has a split along the hinge. One has shed the magnet from its back, and the magnet is also in the drawer, and the magnet is now its own separate problem. The fourth is intact and will not open, which is somehow worse.
The remaining three are serviceable. All three are serviceable only in the sense that they have not failed yet.
FRIENDLY FORCES
One SLIDESEAL, forward deployed, on the bag on the counter. It has not been inside the drawer at any point and there is no present intention to send it there. It is one piece. There is nothing on it to come apart in transit and nothing to go missing in the dark.
MORALE
Adequate.
There is a view, expressed quietly and not for the record, that the drawer cannot be taken. That view is noted and is not endorsed. The drawer was not always like this. Every single object in it was carried in by somebody, on purpose, after paying for it. A condition that was created can be ended.
REQUESTED
Reinforcements, obviously.
Also intelligence. The disposition of other drawers is almost entirely unknown to us, and we would like to know the enemy's true strength in the field. If you have a drawer, count it, and tell us what died in yours. We publish the total whether it flatters us or not.
Day 1,413 begins tomorrow.
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