Tyla POV
History does not remember them the way they expect.
It remembers events, pressures, turning points that can be argued over without ever agreeing on cause. It remembers dates that blur and names that survive only because someone wrote them down carefully enough.
Arthur’s name appears in ledgers and treaties, sometimes misspelled. Tyla appears less often, and almost never accurately. Scholars argue about what she was—conduit, symbol, exaggeration, invention. There are footnotes. There are dissenting essays. There are entire shelves dedicated to proving she could not have existed as described.
None of them are entirely wrong.
None of them are entirely right.
The city endures.
It does not become perfect. It does not become gentle. It does not become wise all at once. It stumble
