The heresy of the individual narrative sparked the first great debate of the Second Garden. The Gardeners were divided. Some argued that the strength of the Garden lay in its interconnectedness, in the way that each story contributed to a larger, ever-evolving narrative. They were the Weavers, and they saw the heretics as a threat to the very fabric of their reality.
Others argued that the beauty of the Garden lay in its diversity, in the infinite variety of its stories. They were the Anthologists, and they saw the heretics as pioneers, as champions of a new kind of narrative freedom. The debate raged, not in words, but in stories. The Weavers created grand, sweeping epics, tales of interconnected destinies and shared fates. The Anthologists created small, perfect jewels of stories, self-contained narratives that shone with their own inner light. The Garden had become a battlefield of ideas, and the prize was the future of storytelling itself.