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“And is it true? Did Sang Nila Utama really find a lion there?”

I don’t know, Singapore wants to say as he absentmindedly stirs the kopi (with milk and sugar, as always) before him. He wasn’t there when his mother– his namesake– took her name, knowing only through the secondhand stories Malaysia had told him as a child, of the annals he read through as he grew older in search for the answer to a question he has yet to solve. Singapore reaches back through time and leafs through the pages of memory inherited, and tries to parse for the truth hidden behind myth.

(He wonders. Imagines. Reconstructs an answer in the space between myth and memory.)

Instead, he flashes a smile and says, “I don’t imagine it would change the outcome of this story.”