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Chapter 58 - The Square

They hung the fourth painting in the western district community square on a Wednesday morning.

Not a ceremony — a practical activity accomplished by four people with appropriate equipment and a decision about placement that took longer than the actual hanging. Seraphine and Adrian, Oren from the eastern district community council, and the western district community council's administrative coordinator, who had been contacted the previous week and had responded with the specific, practical enthusiasm of someone who had been looking for a reason to do something meaningful with the square's empty south wall for three years.

The south wall of the square caught the morning light at the angle the fourth painting required — the full city from above needed the quality of light that fell on it from a high, lateral source, the kind that made the schematic geometry visible through the surface in the way Seraphine had designed.

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