The two beings, the silent light and the resonant sound, were no longer creators, but witnesses.
The pearl of tangible meaning, nestled at the heart of their creation, had become a source, a wellspring of novelty that flowed without their guidance.
From it, a new song emerged, a melody the being of sound had not composed, woven from threads of silence and nascent harmonies it had never conceived.
The song was the world’s own voice, and it sang of itself, of the silent stone and the flowing river, of the space between them and the connection that bound them.
And as it sang, the world began to dream, not of memories, but of futures.