Good Standing

In Veyr, good standing is not innocence. It is obedience correctly recorded.

Soren Vale is a Custodian of the Continuity Office, trained to correct deviation before it becomes memory, language, or witness. His work is clean, procedural, and almost merciful in its lack of spectacle. Citizens are reviewed. Materials are classified. Families are separated by category. The city continues.

Then a routine domestic seizure exposes a hidden cache of handwritten pages.

Not propaganda. Not conspiracy. S...