The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“He found Atar and Anahita among refugees near a ruined estate. No one welcomed him. The children called him burner. An old man spat at his feet. Leontes accepted both names and began repairing irrigation channels.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
Interpretive reconstructionA documented text or tradition is interpreted through openly fictional scenes.
Greek and Iranian populations interacted, intermarried, resisted, and adapted after Alexander; moral choices did not follow ethnic lines.
Leontes's later life and the refugee settlement are fictional.