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- Metameric Black
A city's only licensed 'anomalous observer' spends thirty-one years certifying which colour matches are coincidence and which are robust — until the light itself must be replaced, and the arithmetic that will decide which marriages survive the changeover runs straight through the one he never disclosed as his own.
- Synod
On a moon lit only by lamps its founders can dim or extinguish, a teacher works the arithmetic of circadian drift that every marriage in Descent is built on — and finds, at his mother's funeral and his own kitchen table, what the colony gained the day it voted the last artificial sun dark.