Can you hide a count up (or down) in your text by including numbers that increase (or decrease) over the narrative segment or chapter?
Some easy cases might include:
- Mentioning the time or date.
- “A table for how many, sir?”
- The number of hours left to some event
- Geographic coordinates
- A house number
- The price of something
- A supprising statistic
- An auction bidding war
- People giving their ages
