The number of fingers on the hand in the vision is unclear; photographs of the phenomenon suggest that it has four, but other media, such as the drawing in [[nooneimportant]]'s mailbox or the [[:Image:MVH_lin.gif|spectrographic image]] contained in [[My Violent Heart]], clearly show five.
The Presence concept seems to have come from one stanza of "[[The Wretched ]]" from ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]'':
The clouds will part and the sky cracks open