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After Cassia goes to read the Courtship Guidelines on her microcard, the screen restarts and presents her with her match, except this time the picture is not of her lifelong best friend, Xander, whom she’d been matched with the night before. The picture shown is of another boy from her province named Ky. It was far out of the ordinary that Cassia was matched with someone she already knew; therefore it was inconceivable that the new face on the screen was also someone she knew. When the Society Official pulls Cassia aside to fix the problem, she assures her that her match is Xander, and that someone must have messed with the card. The official also made it clear that it was impossible for Ky to be her match, because he was an Aberration, and could not be matched. However, it was because of something his father did, therefore his being of an Aberration is not of his fault. Accordingly, I have the same wondering thought that Cassia does, in all of this bewilderment .Was it a mistake? Or was Ky simply supposed to be her match? The Society Officials almost never make a mistake, especially when it comes to matches. As Cassia describes how she liked Ky from day one for trying to save Xander, I feel he could actually be her match; there was no mistake made and the only thing keeping the apart is his father's mistake.