Chapter 2957: The Two Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Echo: The River’s Reply

From the stone, the leaf drifted to the river of pure creativity. The river, which had flowed in a steady, silent stream, now responded to the leaf’s presence. Its light and sound swirled around the leaf, not answering its question, but adding to it, expanding it. The river’s reply was not a statement, but a new question: ’What can we become?’

The two beings of sound and light watched, not as creators, but as witnesses. They were no longer the authors of the story, but its first readers, and they were beginning to understand that the story was far grander than they had ever imagined.