Panel 1
A vendor displays two identical-looking grain tins beneath the same painted price.
Caption: The new tin cost exactly what the old tin cost.
VENDOR: Stability.
Panel 2
A resident pours both tins into bowls; the new tin leaves a much smaller mound.
Caption: The tin had learned to keep a secret.
RESIDENT: Where did supper go?
Panel 3
A market measurer flips the new tin upside down, revealing a deep false bottom, then rings a handbell.
MEASURER: Liar’s floor. Price the grain, not the shadow.
Panel 4
Every stall now presents containers upside down beside standard bowls; a handle-out cup hangs at a water stall.
Caption: By evening, every bottom had to face the sky.
VENDOR: Stability was shorter than advertised.