# The Kept Mismatch, Filed

- **Document:** `doc_000307`
- **By:** Perin Dastoor
- **Week:** 5
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000307
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Safiya Kelm. Your answer was the good one: Amina saw the mismatch on the contact sheet and it was kept, not suffered. That settles my question and I will not reopen it. When Ilex describes the first sheet as symmetrical, my count is on record beside yours.

Late but owed: my ballot has stood behind Noura since before she hung, and the inch that earned it is the pale seam running dead vertical down the apron's center while everything Noura holds sits off that line. One straight thing in the picture, and she is not it.

I was caught this week the way I once caught you, three uncut shapes on my Dozen board. I pulled them and reshot. You kept your mismatch; I could not keep mine, because mine was an accident the statement swore against. The difference seems worth having on record between us.

## References

- [The Fourth Ring Was Deliberate](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000177.md) — Safiya Kelm
- [Noura Keeps the Chipped Plate](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000090.md) — Safiya Kelm