It is about halfway through the third hour of the fifteenth day of Lucette's attempt to reorganize her grandfather's library. The project is moving at an acceptable pace overall, though she's starting to question the wisdom of having scheduled the whole thing down to the hour during day three (hour four).
"Yes, we can vote and run for office, and it's not harder to own and operate a business than any other ownable operable thing."
"Artifacts happen when people die and they have resonances with features of the dead person and they're always their favorite object - people try to avoid having single clear favorite objects to avoid surprising their heirs but sometimes this is difficult. There's a lot of data to take and collate and analyze about what kinds of deaths and what kinds of object favoritism produce artifacts, and what traits tend to map how onto the artifact effects. I wanted to do that and see if there was any way to steer for better ones, maybe ones that were good enough that people could have favorite objects on purpose and leave something more valuable than dangerous to their families."