The hostile poem and the critical account would not share a table.
Conti gave them separate floor rails instead. Olafur Jonsson's `Spanish Stanzas` occupied the north rail. Jon Gudmundsson's `A True Account` occupied the south rail. A removable strip between them carried modern collection indexes and translation metadata.
Jiang caught the strip's leather tab with his beak and pulled it free.
"Overlap closed," Hessa said. "And please stop looking pleased about putting scholarship in your mouth."
"My body lacks pockets. History must accept some inconvenience."
Aylin checked the physical packet labels. Neither packet contained a verified authorial manuscript. Neither offered a narrator voice. The comparison would display attributed stance and indexed event rows only.
[SOURCE-CONFLICT BOARD]
[North lane:Olafur hostile poem]
[South lane:Jon critical account]
[Modern overlap strip:removed]
[Narrator bodies0 | historical voices0]
[Objective-memory lanes0]
