Story
Once, there were four Hoppelon, always united. Yet even apples grown from the same tree cannot agree forever. To resolve disputes, they introduced anonymous voting, deciding everything, big or small, was put to a vote. It proved cumbersome. When the time came to shed their green spring coats and don their red summer ones, the vote deadlocked, two against two. The meeting dragged on from dawn till dusk. Positions kept wavering and shifting, but a stable majority of three never emerged. In the end, they decided to proceed as three. Odd numbers, they realized, was one of the keys to unity.
