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THE SEA THAT HELD THE WORLD CHAPTER I

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Page 12: Recording a birth gives a child a civic name, and Mira remembers why she valued the Archive.
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Narration: A child could be born in a storm, far from any record house.

Visual description: A mother holds a newborn inside a rain-lashed boat while a man braces the door.

Narration: A clerk somewhere entered the event, and the child received a civic name.

Visual description: A clerk writes in a great ledger. Back on the ruined roof, Mira looks over Lumen.

Narration: The Archive let strangers act as if they had stood in the same room.

Narration: That was what Mira had loved about it.