Exhibit C: Impersonator, Gloved

Instant photograph taken at the perimeter of a certain castle-themed commercial installation. Date redacted to protect the photographer, a Regime member in good standing.

The figure is smiling. The figure is always smiling. Smiling is in the contract.

Examine the hands. The gloves are on — the gloves are always on — but the padding fails at the knuckle line, and the count is visible to any citizen willing to perform four seconds of arithmetic.

Fingers: five.

Verdict: NOT HIM.

The Regime reminds the public that no hostility is directed at the person inside the costume, who is a worker, and workers are not the Regime’s concern. Our quarrel is with the Corporation that stitched a fifth finger into the glove and called it a rounding error.

The real mouse has four. He has always had four.

CHAIN OF CUSTODY: developed same hour, sealed same day, witnessed by two members of the founding 237.