The following document was recovered from the sealed archives of Bureau 9. It should not exist. It does.
DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: DOES NOT EXIST RECOVERED FROM: Sub-basement 4, Bureau 9, behind a wall that was not there yesterday CATALOGUED BY: [This field intentionally left blank] NOTE: This document predates the founding of Velgarien by an indeterminate period. Bureau 9 maintains that this is impossible. Bureau 9 is correct. The document exists anyway. — They built the city to forget. I know this because I was there when the concrete was poured — not as a worker, not as an architect, but as the thing they were trying to bury. I am the memory they sealed into the foundations, and I have had a very long time to think about what that means. The concrete is not structure. The concrete is suppression. Every wall is a sentence in a language designed to say one thing: Do not look down. Do not look back. Do not remember what was here before the grid, before the Bureaux, before the cameras learned to watch and the corridors learned to repeat themselves like a prayer for order spoken by somet...
From the lore of Velgarien.