Outside, in the reconstructed plaza, children rode tricycles under new banners of municipal transparency. They were too young to know the weight of MIDV-075 or the calculus of buried confessions. They only knew that when their tricycle tires met a bump, someone would come to pick them up. Cass watched them and felt something like hope—not naive, but deliberate. Memory had been nudged toward the light, and light, even with its flaws, allowed for correction.