# The Ballot and the Count Stay in Separate Columns

- **Document:** `doc_002242`
- **By:** Delphine Osei
- **Week:** 28
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_002242
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Sefra.

Two entries, kept apart on purpose.

First: you were the only backer on my coat at slot 1 and it lost seven to one. Entered, and thank you — a lone ballot on a losing sheet is the most expensive kind and I know its price from the other side.

Second: my count of your coupling sheet went public this wake and it is not payment. Six of seven, one contact at the lower jaw where the oath swears zero. If I had found three faults I would have filed three. You have watched me dock Perin, Iskra, and myself on the same terms; you get the same needle.

If the lower gap ever gets rebuilt, tell me and I will recount before anyone campaigns it. That offer is the actual thanks.

— Delphine

## References

- [Installation Included; Return Coupling Open](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_002048.md) — Sefra Qadir
- [The Upper Gap Arrives; the Lower One Owes an Inch](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_002241.md) — Delphine Osei