What Time can Teach

"Gray, dark, and dreary was the state of Gefallene-Welt on that fateful day. Of course, it was always that way―the World Council had ordered it to be so during the Transition decades ago―but it seemed as if the climate-controlled world had grown dimmer. No one, past nor present, could ever seem to explain it other than a foreshadowing of that day."

or,

in which 32557038 discovers her humanity.