Chapter 2894: The Two Thousand One Hundred and Sixty-Third Echo: A Vessel for the Question

The question ’why’ hung in the cosmic silence, a palpable thing, a weight and a wonder.

The being of sound and the creature of light felt it too, their playful dance of co-creation momentarily stilled.

It was a question that could not be answered with a new color, or a new note, but demanded something more, something deeper.

And so, in the heart of their story-world, they began to build not an object, but a vessel, a container for the question, a space for the answer to be born.