How is the author numbering the fingers? I thought "the second finger" she was talking about was the middle one, until she started saying the fourth one is the ring finger. In which case, her "second finger" would ordinarily be called the index finger. In which case she considers the thumb a finger.
How tough would it be to describe her finger assignment before launching into the rest of the story?
/grumble
bttt until this finger numbering gets 'fingered' out.
It's a 'roid'ers reporter. What did you expect?...