a gate, rejoin the traffic, and drive home. If the King stands at the gate at that moment, he sees them arrive. The same law admits newcomers: an empty house can gain a family, who arrive by the road like anyone else. THE LOOP Yes — the city is loop-able, by construction. The day is a ring: midnight is only an hour on the clock, citizens asleep in their addresses, the last buses come home, traffic thins to the night profile, and the ring closes into the next morning without a seam. Positions are never accumulated frame over frame; each day is re-derived from schedules and routes, so a week of days cannot drift or rot. And it is a living loop, not a recording: the skeleton repeats, the choices inside it vary by the day — who takes the bus, who walks, who drives out of town and when they return — because each citizen's parameters are permanent but their days are drawn fresh. The King is not part of the loop's machinery and is never adopted by a block: blocks swap around him; he is sovereign. WHAT ALIVE DOES NOT MEAN No teleporting within sight. No canned animation cycles pretending to be journeys. No second registry that could disagree with the first. The render, the routes, the schedules and the Witness read one list, under one clock — so whatever the city claims, the King can check, and it will agree with itself.