04.1 / APODYOPSIS
What we know
Evidence and interpretation are distinct. Local divergences must remain separate.
Time branches across the stories: the date in the world, the body’s age, and the age lived through memory can diverge.
Two timelines for the Lhomond Center coexist as local branches; neither retroactively corrects the other.
Identical names are never automatically treated as the same person. There are four categories: a continuous identity, a central identity across branches, a branch variant, and unrelated people who share a name.
Guideposts in the stories
D01 / Lhomond Center : 1968 / 2009
Les deux datations ne sont plus traitées comme une erreur à corriger. Elles appartiennent à deux branches locales distinctes : - Branche LH-68 — The Collection : convention constitutive du Centre le 14 juin 1968 ; l'institution existe donc avant 2009. - Branche A-00/2009 — A-00 : la structure « Centre Lhomond — Archives » reçoit localement cette dénomination administrative en 2009. Règle : ne jamais utiliser la date d'une branche pour corriger rétrospectivement l'autre.
D02 / Vincent Séverac in 2009
The same distinction applies across branches: in A-00/2009, Vincent is nine years old. In LH-68, he is an adult when the family material is deposited on November 2, 2009; The Desk Drawer continues that adult branch. This is a divergence between local biographies, not time travel or an age discrepancy.
D03 / The Shinjuku Equation
La duologie est finale telle que livrée. Tome I : chapitres 1–50. Tome II — The Victim Who Waits : chapitres 51–52. Le second volume est une coda volontairement courte. Aucun volume manquant n'est attendu.
D04 / The Absent Woman’s Photograph
The Photograph of the Missing Woman continues in The Woman They Removed. Hélène Arnaud connects this investigation to the history of the Collection; Claire Bonnarel, Nora Belcourt, and Malik Giraud follow the traces of the absence.
D05 / Recurring identities
The same name may appear in several stories. Some appearances extend a single life; others belong to parallel versions or entirely different people.
D06 / Founding Trilogy
I Know You, I Remember, and I Choose You form the founding trilogy. Three novels follow Eden through lives that do not share the same present.