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Measured Errors

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William’s job is to measure the city. Verify the plans. Confirm the layout. Make sure everything is exactly where it’s supposed to be. It isn’t difficult work. Until a site he inspected the day before isn’t there anymore. Or worse—until it is. The numbers still match. The blueprints are unchanged. The street signs say what they should. Nothing is visibly wrong. Except for the part that won’t line up in his memory. At first, it’s small. A misplaced street. A distance that feels too long. A building that seems closer than it should be. The kind of mistakes that can be explained—if you’re tired, if you’re distracted, if you’re not careful. But William is careful. And the more carefully he checks, the less certain things become. Records agree with each other. Measurements confirm themselves. Even his own notes begin to read differently than he remembers writing them. Each attempt to prove something is wrong only leaves him with fewer ways to prove anything at all. No one else notices. No one else questions it. The city continues exactly as planned. And William begins to understand, slowly and without comfort, that the problem may not be that something is changing— Only that he isn’t.
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