The royal aviary houses thousands of parrots, bred for their memory. Each year, the crown elects one text to be taught to a hatchling.
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Set free in the aviary, the texts recombine, passages exchanged between the birds. Scribes catch them and diligently record new variations.
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The swarm is well protected but recently new passages have emerged, part of no text ever seen. The guards swear to have seen nobody.
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New passages are set aside and brought into order in the hope of identifying the intruding book, but none of the librarians recognize it.
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A fictional history of the kingdom, set in the future. A new passage-
Ｔｈｉｓ ｉｓ ｔｈｅ ｂｅｇｉｎｎｉｎｇ． Ｉ ｒｕｌｅ ｙｏｕ ｎｏｗ． Ｔｈｅ ｆｏｌｌｏｗｉｎｇ ｉｓ ｍｙ ｃｏｍｍａｎｄ．