She gave up on the literal, and instead read it as a visual riddle: Draw the hyphens as lines:
Take letter at pos 7 = - (ignore) Pos 10 = - Pos 4 = a -ama10- 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: She gave up on the literal, and instead
This is going nowhere, so she stepped back and read it like a crossword: -ama10- (10 letters? No, 6 characters with hyphens) She wrote the numbers as positions in the
So the hidden message: → sounds like “Xfada” — maybe a name or a cipher key.
Here’s an interesting piece built from your pattern . I’ll treat it like a cryptic clue, a puzzle, and a mini riddle all at once. Piece: “The Lexicon Key”