Claim

Once reality can change, truth becomes territory. Borders shift without armies moving. Two governments produce equally authentic records of the same city belonging to both of them for the same hundred years. A continuity adjudicator is sent to determine which version of an impossible event the law will recognize. Governments do not need to control reality. They only need the authority to declare which reality counts. And somewhere beyond their reach is a witness carrying memories that should no longer exist. Sixteen of them.