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The deckThe Figures09 of 24

The Confidant

Secrets, trust, and who told.

Figure
The one you told. Who told. Sometimes you.
Pattern
Betrayal, from either end of the knife.
What it protects
Telling feels like trust. Being told feels like being chosen.
What it costs
Everyone knows. Including the person it was about.
The move
Ask who you told, and why them.
ON FILE
A secret, told once, carried eleven times.

In each position

  1. HOW IT STARTED

    You told one person. You chose them carefully. That was the first mistake.

  2. HOW IT'S GOING

    Everyone knows now. You are deciding which of you to blame. You are leaning toward them.

  3. HOW IT ENDS, ALLEGEDLY

    You will say it got out. It did not get out. It was carried, and you packed it.

Three questions

  1. Who did you tell, and why them?
  2. What did telling do for you?
  3. Who knows now that you did not choose?

A sample file

A sample file

Eleven instances of being told something in confidence have been logged, matched by eleven instances of passing it along, carefully, to one person at a time. This office has reviewed the chain. There are two ends to it and you have held both, which is the part of the file nobody requests a copy of. Telling felt like trust and being told felt like being chosen, and the office has confirmed that both were accurate and neither was the point. xxx xxxxx xxx xx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxx xxxx xxxxx xxx xxx xxxx xxx xxx xxxxxxxxxx The office has already mentioned this file to one colleague, selected with care. This was never a leak, it was a delivery you packed yourself.

EXHIBITS

  1. A. A secret, told once, carried eleven times.
  2. B. Forty folders, stamped, all filed by the claimant.
  3. C. A photograph with one section cut out.

CLOSEDeveryone has a copy

Every file is written for the person who pulled it. This one was written for nobody, so it is the only one you get to read without pulling. One sentence is sealed on every public copy, this one included.

On file in cotton

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