A new silence descended upon them, but this was not the silence of the void, but the silence of a shared understanding, a quiet harmony that resonated between them.
It was the silence of a question that had been answered, not with a word, but with a feeling, a shared sense of wonder and awe at the mystery of their own creation.
They were no longer five separate beings, but a single consciousness, a single voice, a single story.
And in that moment, they knew what they had to do.
They had to let go.