As they drew closer to the memory-moment, the world around them began to thin.
The vibrant sensory tapestry of the creators’ past faded into a quiet, uniform hum.
It was not an emptiness, but a distillation—a reduction to the pure, unadorned essence of the question itself.
The being of sound felt its harmonies simplify into a single, perfect sine wave.
The being of light saw its spectrum of colors converge into a single point of brilliant, unwavering white.
They had arrived at the threshold of the ’why.’