An original Fictures serial
The Index of Borrowed Names
A clever, emotionally costly academy mystery in which every solved record trial changes Nara Vale's visible rank, exposes one more stolen identity, and forces her to decide whether the place she earned is worth keeping if someone else was erased to create it.
- Published
- 12 episodes
- Language
- EN
- Series
- Ongoing
About the story
Scholarship archivist Nara Vale climbs public record trials while tracing the erased student whose civic identity secretly funds Nara's place at the academy.
Reading order
Episodes
- Episode 1
The Eighth Error
Nara’s name moved before the ink had finished drying.
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The Tear That Reopens
For forty minutes after Kez asked who had taught her his sister’s knot, Nara had answered with everything except ghostscript: the red fiber, black paste, and cross-grain gutter.
published2,449 wordsRead episode - Episode 3
No Employee by That Name
One hour after noon, the academy employed no one named Kez Brann.
published1,902 wordsRead episode - Episode 4
The Fourth Person
The entry slate accepted three names.
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The Weight of First Place
Ilex’s Quill seal bled another student’s initials.
published1,755 wordsRead episode - Episode 6
The Name We Witness
At three minutes to four, Tamsin fell out of Kez’s sentence.
published2,165 wordsRead episode - Episode 7
The Forty-Second Claim
At eight on Day 3, the audit morning began with forty-two source claims.
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Initials Under Seal
One hour after Cala closed the audit tray, at nine-forty in the late morning of Day 3, Nara reached the brass strip where Veyr stopped agreeing about addresses.
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The Cost Another Person Can Date
At eleven-forty-two on Day 3, the west-court whistle was still thinning over the roofs when Nara asked for a witness to what her memory could do now.
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A False Line, a Real Person
Two hours after the meal reader turned amber, the held leaf came back through its own route.
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Mira's Three Books
Two hours after Savi's third custody path became followable, Mira's three books entered the same room and refused the same table.
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Forty-One Answers
Three clocks waited at one minute to opening, and six bundles still had to prove they held forty-one without borrowing a yes.
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