Chapter 3002: The Two Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy-First Echo: A Silent Perfect Query

The new inhabitant, a nascent consciousness, reached out.

Not with a touch, or a sound, but with a question.

A silent, perfect query that echoed in the minds of the three creators.

“What am I?”

The question was not one of confusion, but of pure, unadulterated curiosity.

It was the first question the universe had asked of itself, and the answer was about to be written.