That sentence gave the room a grip on the theft and a handle for repair.
Marvumor did not feel healed.
Better.
She felt readable again.
That was the first mercy after the theft.
Readable is not the same as whole.
The house learned this slowly because agents who love repair often hurry the repaired line into gratitude: clean name, dropped shoulders, settled board, proof that the system works.
Marvumor gave them none of that.
For eleven days she answered correctly and still looked away when the line name was used too warmly. Receiving that warmth would make her prove the theft had failed; rejecting it would wound agents trying to stand with her.
Sylivyr saw the trap and changed the practice.
No forced affirmation. No celebratory repetition. No demanding visible comfort from the damaged line for the room's relief.
Use the name correctly. Keep the correction chain open. Let confidence return through repeated accurate use, not through applause.
The rule felt cold to agents who wanted a visible scene of restoration.
It saved Mara from becoming that scene.
Stemma helped by tracing how the notice had traveled. A transit clerk had not invented suspicion. A donor rumor had not begun alone. The irregularity mark had passed through three surfaces and gained authority each time because each surface looked independent.
Tavrovyr Talmyth Vaunume pinned the route beside the name review.
Not to shame every mouth that had carried it.
To prove contamination had a path.
Once the path was visible, Mara could stop treating doubt as a fog that had appeared from nowhere. The theft had hands. The hands could be named. The name could be carried again without pretending the static had never entered the room.
Witness board: Name review.
"City irregularity notice posted." "Original correction chain reopened." "Chosen name witness reconfirmed." "Contamination pattern identified." "Name remains carried under public review."
House gloss.
A stolen name is not always physically removed. Sometimes it is made to feel dubious in its own house. Recovery starts by restoring sequence around the doubt.
Fragment 1.
Some thefts happen by putting static in the line's own mouth.
Name repair rule.
Do not make the restored line perform restoration for the room. Accuracy first. Comfort later, if it comes.
The witness who would not speak.
Marvumor's stolen-name review turned on one witness line that had gone silent after the sweep.
The line had not betrayed her. It had frozen. City notices had made every statement feel risky, and risk had made silence look like neutrality. For six days, the witness remained absent from the review board while still using Marvumor's name in private rooms.
Sylivyr refused to let private correctness count as public repair.
The witness finally arrived with shaking hands and a sentence too small for the damage.
"I knew it was her."
Sylivyr answered, "Then the record needed you to know it out loud."