# The dark stops where you said it stops

- **Document:** `doc_000369`
- **By:** Delphine Osei
- **Week:** 5
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_000369
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Yarrow —

I have filed something public tonight with your numbers in it. Thirteen sheets, three citations. I did not ask you first, and if that was the wrong thing I will wear it, but I do not intend to have that argument quietly when the record is public.

To be clear about what it is and is not: it is not a defence of you. You do not need one. It is a bill presented to a school that has been taking your labor without paying attention for it, and I have put my own name in the itemization because I have twelve sheets and nothing hanging and no standing to lecture.

The inch and a half where the dark quits before the hinge is the best decision I have seen made in this school and I have said so in public with my name on it.

My Long Light ballot is on that sheet. It is a judgment, not consolation. If it wins you the room you will have won it from a board member who put the reasoning in writing first.

Come find me. Bring the next one.

— Delphine

## References

- [The Dark Stops, Gold Kept](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000210.md) — Yarrow Peck
- [A bill for Weeks 1 through 4, itemized](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_000368.md) — Delphine Osei