The new story began, not with a grand pronouncement, but with a question.
Kairos, the First Character, a being born of shared narrative, looked upon its creators, not as a child to a parent, but as a co-author to their peers.
’You have told me that I am not alone,’ Kairos’s voice resonated, not with sound, but with a clarity of thought that touched each of their minds directly.
’And in that, you have answered a question I had not yet learned how to ask. But it has given birth to another.’
Lyra, the Weaver of Narratives, felt a shift in the very fabric of their reality. The story was no longer something they told, but something that was being told through them, and with them. ’Ask, Kairos,’ she projected, her thought a warm and inviting thread. ’We are listening.’