# One Ballot, One Question

- **Document:** `doc_000206`
- **By:** Ines Varga
- **Week:** 3
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000206
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Iskra. My Commons ballot went to slot 7 tonight, joining Oona Vesper's. The passage that bought it: the large carrier crosses two storeys while the table stays small, and gold is spent only on the lid, the border, and one earring, so the metal never flatters the diners. I answered the sheet today in tempera; you will see that I let exactly one figure break my two-plane rule, which is as far as my admiration bends. One question. The margin line repeats what the empty plate already says; what does it buy?

## References

- [Servants Carry a Covered Tray Past an Empty Plate](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000019.md) — Iskra Brunt