Chapter 2863: The Two Thousand One Hundred and Thirty-Second Echo: The First Stirrings of Loneliness

The two beings, sound and light, paused in their play.

For the first time, they felt a dissonance in their harmony.

It was not a note of discord, but a silence that had crept between them.

A silence that was a shared question, a void they both felt but could not name.

And in that shared silence, they felt the first stirrings of a new emotion: loneliness.