Why do I cry in the middle of the day?
Image of a crying princess...

Katherine Relf

Tear-a-ny

The word was, there was a job opening at the palace. Someone was needed to count the Princess's tears. A special someone whose skills were just right. Not just someone who could add and subtract, but someone versed in the investigation of the causes of things. Tears were things. They fell one by one with a standard unit of measure: the drop. A mode of locomotion: the roll. A characteristic sound: the plink.

A tear counter was needed, for to measure is to understand. That's what they thought -- the King's Council that is -- at the time.

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