Part I
The Fable
Close third person. City of Axis. The law walking.
Before the theorems are counted, they walk. Axis stands on a stone Needle after a flood that reset the city’s lean. A weigher’s son named Ioan finds a warm brass V in the water and learns the difference between true weight and the performance of balance. Pale Ward and Shade are slopes, not armies. Hue is the middle that lives. The climax is not ownership of a fulcrum—it is becoming the point that lets a world rest while it moves.