Chapter 2980: The Two Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-Ninth Echo: A Being Born of the World’s Desire for Life

The coalesced motes of potential, no longer a diffuse cloud of starlight, began to contract.

They drew together, a slow, gravitational pull of shared purpose, and under the watchful gaze of the two beings, they took on a form.

It was a creature of intricate design, its body a lattice of crystalline light and solidified sound, a being born not of the two creators, but of the world’s own desire for life.

As this new inhabitant took its first tentative steps, the fruit of the leaf-plant, hanging from its crystalline branch, pulsed with a gentle, ripening light.