The first law arrives without ceremony. No parade. No proclamation. No thunderous declaration from balconies or towers. It appears on public screens at precisely 09:00 across every district, formatted like a maintenance notice, plain text, neutral font, no emblem.CIVIC CONTINUITY DIRECTIVE 1: In the interest of shared stability, all public institutions will operate under Majority Recollection Protocol.People read it twice before understanding. Frank reads it once and feels the glass inside his chest tighten. The city does not erupt. It nods. That is what frightens him most.The directive is not framed as control. It is framed as relief. A structure for the exhausted, a rule for the uncertain. Majority recollection, if most remember it, it stands. If most confirm it, it becomes the official sequence. Truth by consensus. Memory by vote. He watches pedestrians pause beneath the screens, murmuring softly, not in anger but in consideration. Some smile. Others shrug. Very few objects.