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-The [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]' [[Cupid Intelligence Institute]] had a '''Department of Chronology'''. Its members, the Chronologists, mostly kept to themselves in their [[Continuity Tower]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving]]'') Their business was “sorting out timeline errors in the various universes the Cupids watched over”, and did not extend to the Homeworld itself, hence its somewhat fluid relationship to time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'') This meant that the Cupids were unable to verify the [[Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles]]' claim of coming from a future where they were allied with the Cupid“until the Department of Chronology manage[d] to straighten out the Homeworld’s [[timestream]] enough to permit [the Cupids] to travel up and down [their] own History”.  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Evil (short story)|The Book of Evil]]'')
+The [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]' [[Cupid Intelligence Institute]] had a '''Department of Chronology'''.
+Its members, the Chronologists, mostly kept to themselves in their [[Continuity Tower]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving]]'') Their business was “sorting out timeline errors in the various universes the Cupids watched over”, and did not extend to the Homeworld itself, hence its somewhat fluid relationship to time; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Magic Trick (novel)|Magic Trick]]'') they had never successfully “worked out a fixed system of time for the Homeworld”, with [[Department of Chronology's clock tower|the clock tower they maintained]] being attuned to one of the time zones of the [[Prime Universe]]'s [[Earth (Prime Universe)|Earth]], roughly matching the alternating designated working and resting periods put forward by the [[Department of Sleep]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'') This meant that the Cupids were unable to verify the [[Collective of the Retconning Crocodiles]]' claim of coming from a future where they were allied with the Cupid“until the Department of Chronology manage[d] to straighten out the Homeworld’s [[timestream]] enough to permit [the Cupids] to travel up and down [their] own History”.  ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Evil (short story)|The Book of Evil]]'')
 In 2019, they loaned some clocks to the [[Department of Problem-Solving]], which were used in the Problem-Solvers' summoning and binding of [[Lord Thymon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving (short story)|Lord Thymon and the Department of Problem-Solving]]'')