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He smiled. "True is a messy thing," he said. "Maybe it's better."

They walked along the river afterward, the city unfolding in indifferent detail. Neither mentioned the archive or the tag that had nudged them together. Instead, they compared trivial possessions: a cracked lighter, a notebook with grocery lists, the same tangle of keys. When Katya paused to point at a mural—a child's painted face blooming from a brick wall—Zhenya realized he could no longer imagine her as an image pinned to a folder. She was an accumulation of small, human things.