I Fish People Out of History

“The Register of Crossings isn’t something you should touch. Put it down, and I’ll pretend I didn’t see it.” That night, in the basement of the ancient books archive, I opened an unnumbered book. The next day, I was standing in the middle of a battlefield in the Spring and Autumn period. A swordsmith knelt before me and said, “Please, my lord, set the record straight for me.” Only then did I learn that beneath all the blank spaces in the history books lay real people.