Fragment I — The First Witness

Recorded near the southern market road.

Archive Reference: Market Record, Southern Quarter

He arrived quietly, as travelers often do. The market was already alive with voices, trade, and the passing of strangers who would not remember one another by nightfall. But one man did not pass through unnoticed. He watched. He listened. And before the day was finished, he began to write.Some say he was searching for a scroll. Others say the scroll had already been entrusted to him.

The record does not say which is true.