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  1. 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.

  2. 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.