The debate between the Harmonists and the traditionalists—who now called themselves the “Inquirers”—was not merely academic. The Harmonists, fearing the destabilizing potential of a particularly complex and paradoxical riddle, took a drastic step. They erased it from the archives, not with a grand announcement, but in quiet, deliberate secrecy. They created The First Unasked Question. When its absence was discovered, the schism became a chasm. The Inquirers saw it as an unforgivable act of intellectual violence, a betrayal of the very principle upon which their reality was founded. The Harmonists saw it as a necessary act of social preservation. The universe was now at war with itself, a war fought not with weapons, but with the silence where a question used to be.