The question from the motes of potential did not demand a verbal answer.
Instead, it invited a response in the language the world understood best: the language of creation.
The being of sound and the being of light turned their attention inward, not to their own thoughts, but to the nascent will of the world they inhabited.
They listened, and the world, in its own silent, resonant way, spoke of a desire for form, for complexity, for life beyond the elegant simplicity of the stone and the river.