Panel 1
A ration gate asks for a face while residents wait with water vessels.
Caption: The new lock promised nobody could borrow your place.
GATE: PRESENT FACE.
Panel 2
Mud, age, injury, glare, and a scarf cause the gate to reject several rightful residents.
GATE: FACE UNAVAILABLE.
ELDER: It is attached.
Panel 3
A clerk opens a side latch using a paper ledger and three-witness cord after asking names and checking records.
CLERK: A body is evidence, not a password.
Panel 4
The gate remains as one option, but a large MANUAL WITNESS handle is equally visible; the line moves.
Caption: The lock kept its eye. People kept the last word.
GATE: CONFIDENCE LOWER.
CLERK: Correct.