’That reminds me,’ asked George, ‘earlier you mentioned replacing England and London with the proper word, Albion, right.’
‘I did.’
‘It never occurred to me before you said that,’ George continued, ‘but have you ever wondered if England and London were the same thing, or were they different places?’
‘Perhaps they were,’ Tibha replied. ‘Don’t forget, these fiction writers, the novelists, invented quite a lot. And when you do that you need to have a good memory because otherwise some things become blurred, misunderstood and misremembered even. It’s a bit like lying to somebody. Liars need to have great memories. If you tell the truth, like we do today, then you don’t need such a reliable memory do you?’
George thought about Mira again. ‘Very true,’ he replied. ‘If you tell the truth then
