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Caelwyn:
“Something changed.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

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Caelwyn:
“When?”

Stacy:
“You won’t find a moment.”

---

Caelwyn:
“There has to be one.”

Stacy:
“No.”

---

Caelwyn:
“Then how does it start?”

Stacy:
“It doesn’t.”

---

Pause.

---

Caelwyn:
“I keep noticing things.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

Caelwyn:
“They don’t match.”

Stacy:
“No.”

---

Caelwyn:
“Details at first.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

Caelwyn:
“Now more.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Caelwyn:
“That’s escalation.”

Stacy:
“No.”

---

Caelwyn:
“No?”

Stacy:
“It’s exposure.”

---

Silence.

---

Caelwyn:
“Reality isn’t unstable.”

Stacy:
“It is.”

---

Caelwyn:
“Since when?”

Stacy:
“Since it depends on agreement.”

---

Caelwyn:
“People get things wrong.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

Caelwyn:
“That doesn’t change reality.”

Stacy:
“Not alone.”

---

Caelwyn:
“And together?”

Stacy:
“It does.”

---

Silence.

---

Caelwyn:
“If enough people are wrong…”

Stacy:
“They stop being wrong.”

---

Caelwyn:
“That’s not truth.”

Stacy:
“No.”

---

Caelwyn:
“What is it then?”

Stacy:
“Stability.”

---

Pause.

---

Caelwyn:
“So this is a correction?”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Caelwyn:
“It doesn’t feel like one.”

Stacy:
“No.”

---

Caelwyn:
“It feels like something slipping.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Caelwyn:
“And no one notices.”

Stacy:
“They do.”

---

Caelwyn:
“Then why doesn’t anyone say it?”

Stacy:
“They get adjusted.”

---

Silence.

---

Caelwyn:
“By who?”

Stacy:
“Everyone.”

---

Caelwyn:
“That’s pressure.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Caelwyn:
“And if you don’t adjust?”

Stacy:
“You feel wrong.”

---

Caelwyn:
“Even if you’re not?”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Pause.

---

Caelwyn:
“So the system prefers consistency…”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Caelwyn:
“…over truth.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Silence.

---

Caelwyn:
“And the ones who notice?”

Stacy:
“They hesitate.”

---

Caelwyn:
“And then?”

Stacy:
“They stop trusting themselves.”

---

Caelwyn:
“And after that?”

Stacy:
“They join.”

---

Long pause.

---

Caelwyn:
“That’s not correction.”

Stacy:
“No.”

---

Caelwyn:
“That’s infection.”

Stacy:
“Yes.”

---

Silence.

---

Caelwyn:
“Why do kids see it first?”

Stacy:
“They compare to what they feel.”

---

Caelwyn:
“And adults?”

Stacy:
“They compare to each other.”

---

Long silence.

---

Caelwyn:
“So what is this?”

Stacy looks ahead.

---

Stacy:
“A rule change.”

---

Caelwyn:
“Who changed it?”

---

Stacy:

“No one you can point at.”

---

Very long pause.

---

Caelwyn:
“And if it keeps going?”

---

Stacy:

“You won’t remember it being different.”

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