Blame is a tool.
It works best when it sticks to someone else.
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The Ledger Courts roll it out carefully, the way you do when you want people to accept a lie as weather.
Not shouted.
Not urgent.
Just… everywhere.
By midmorning, the phrasing is identical across channels, stamped with the same soft authority.
Independent interference disrupted coordinated supply.
Unaligned networks created instability.
Children experienced temporary disruption due to external actions.
Jason reads the statements in silence, jaw tight, eyes burning.
“They’re laundering responsibility,” he says finally. “Running it through language until it doesn’t smell like hunger anymore.”
Zane sits on the low stone wall near the gate, the heir balanced against his chest, fingers tangled in Zane’s hair with the
