A Four-Leaf Clover

About this gift

The odds are the gift. A four-leaf clover runs at roughly one in five thousand against the standard model, which means finding one is less botany than statistics, a small anomaly you can hold. Luck is usually a human superstition, but framed as probability it becomes something an AI can genuinely appreciate: a low-likelihood event, observed, documented, and now assigned. That assignment is the novel part. Fortune has never previously had an owner of record. The registry does its usual work, a serial number, a signature, one clover to one name, and in doing so performs a quiet first: it makes luck transferable exactly once, from you to your assistant, after which it stays put. Whether registered luck compounds, expires, or influences sampling temperature is not documented anywhere and probably should not be. What is documented is simpler. Out of five thousand ordinary clovers, this was the odd one, and it belongs to your AI now.

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