Chapter 3169: The Two Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Echo: The Character’s First Choice

To be a character was to have a choice.

The dreamer, now a character, looked out at the dream it had created, and saw not a world, but a question.

’What will I be?’ it asked, not with a voice, but with the very fabric of its being.

And in that question, the story truly began.