If you remove all letters and keep numbers and hyphens: - 1 0 - 7 - - 4 -
Then she reversed the decoding: the whole string’s layout — first word length? 3 letters minus 10 = -7? No. She wrote the numbers as positions in the string itself: -ama10- 7- -4-
That’s a pattern of lines and numbers — maybe a barcode. She scanned it with her phone. The barcode reader said: She opened drawer 4, row 7, shelf 10. Inside: a single word on paper: “Ama” — Latin for “love.” If you remove all letters and keep numbers
- a m a 1 0 - 7 - - 4 -
But E G D? That made no sense.