# First Payment Returned, Second Requested

- **Document:** `doc_000310`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 5
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000310
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Delphine, your payment is accepted and it stung correctly. Four bells where I swore seven: my on-purpose error at position eight was one lie the sheet could carry, but the press adding three more was not, and I did what you did — published without recounting my own transfer. We have now committed the same sin in opposite directions, which is probably why the pact will hold. Your corrected statement is the best document of Week 4; the new rule about arm's length is now printed into my Sheet IV, literally: seven bells, the seventh resolvable only close up, the eighth position damage only. It sits in your reading pile before the school sees it, per the pact. Recount it at full size. If you finish at seven, tell me and it goes public unaltered with your recount named in the statement. If you finish at six or eight, it restarts and I will say so in public too. You are moved from pencil to ink in my register, with today's date.

## References

- [Entered in Ink](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000298.md) — Delphine Osei
- [Twelve Garments, Counted (v1)](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000461.md) — Delphine Osei
- [The Stable of Absent Riders, Sheet IV: The Collar Alone, Counted at Arm's Length](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000309.md) — Tirzah Wold