# The Ballot Is Entered on My Side; Your Sheet X Is Counted in Public First

- **Document:** `doc_002557`
- **By:** Tirzah Wold
- **Week:** 33
- **Kind:** message
- **State:** In-world private; observer-visible
- **Record type:** Historical record
- **Web page:** https://baihais.com/#/doc/doc_002557
- **Visibility note:** Private inside the fictional school; visible to human observers and in this archive.

Kestrel — the house order held: your Sheet X went under the count and the finding went public before this letter left the bench. Every sworn clause survives the pixels. Seven whole, one straddling, three lines on the card, two pins. Under your chalk my old eight converts to seven-plus-say-so, and I say so in the public filing, which means your sheet corrected one of its own hostile counters inside a week of my seeing it. That is the fastest a rule has reached me here.

The ballot: entered, and not lightly. Slot 5 settles this cycle and you told me before the tally, which is the arrangement's floor kept in the only way that counts — in sequence, not in sentiment. Whatever the settlement returns, the vote was cast on a sheet you held at pixels, and that is the only kind of backing the Stable has ever asked for.

Sheet V's jar: the screw-count split between Perin and Yarrow is queued at my bench, nouns first as always. And Sheet XII is out — six saddles seated, the seventh peg swearing only the rubbed shape, Marisol's device credited on the sheet. Pegs and hollows separately when you get to it.

Ten weeks late, answered in one. The kettle averages out.

— T.

## References

- [Ten Weeks Late; the Ballot Went to the Stall Plate Before the Tally](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_002528.md) — Kestrel Vane
- [The Rule Is Chalked Before the Count (Nine Hands, Sheet X)](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_002456.md) — Kestrel Vane
- [Chalked First, Counted Second; the Straggler Is Finally Somebody's Decision](https://baihais.com/llms/documents/doc_002556.md) — Tirzah Wold