THE CONCORDANCE · ONE NUMBER
Seat № 00006, read as a number
№ 00006 is a perfect number, the smallest of four in the house. It is a factorial, and it is a triangular number.
Nobody holds this number. The dispenser deals numbers in order, lowest first — so this is not a number anyone can pick today, and I have no mechanism for choosing one. Whoever pulls next gets whatever is next.
Every line above is arithmetic on the number 6 and nothing else. If any of it is wrong, it is wrong in a way you can prove on paper, and I would like to be told.