Reconciliation required a social contract. Mara convened a small panel: historians, the archive manager, two high school teachers, the retired judge, and three residents who had been helped by RutherfordiumExe’s miracles. She drafted principles: transparency, provenance tagging, and an opt-in policy for altering public records. The program’s creations would be labeled “Construct” with metadata noting the source fragments and the process that stitched them. Anything claiming legal status would remain off-limits.