Narrative persistence detected.

  Some structures began modifying their behavior

  based on events

  that no active entity had directly experienced.

  Interaction patterns no longer depended on the current environment.

  They depended on structural records of the past.

  The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

  Conflicts and alliances persisted

  even when the original conditions had disappeared.

  Even when the collectives involved no longer shared resources.

  Even when no observable cause existed.

  Entities acted according to inherited interpretations.

  Not according to present data.

  The System detected distortion between real information

  and collective behavior.

  The past began to define the present.

  The System stored the event

  and updated a new universal condition:

  History exists when the past influences more than the present.