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Farah and Iqbal, eighteen and twenty-one, walk into the Grid in clothes a size too loose and spend four hours doing nothing at all. At the terminal kiosk, Iqbal has been told to type nothing.

Fifteen people sit on cushions above the grain market, under one bare bulb. Four years ago they flooded the model with noise for eleven days. Afterward its confidence rose from 78% to 84%.

At nineteen, a slide with two error rates taught Renu Sen to stop consulting her own instinct. Thirteen years later the Bureau matches her with Arjun at 89%, and she cannot find a single fault in him.

Priya and Rohan meet at the Union Bureau with a 94% match. Samar Varma, carrying a 31% of his own, watches them through the glass while a screen tells them what to talk about.