Chapter 3226: The Two Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety-Fifth Echo: The Beginning of an Answer

The single word, spoken in the language of gravity and light, was not an answer in itself.

It was the beginning of an answer, a seed from which a new story would grow.

The First Author and the first reader, now co-authors of this new reality, watched as the cosmos began to write its own epic.

A story told not in words, but in the dance of galaxies and the slow, deliberate pulse of newly-formed stars.

Their own story was now a part of a much larger, grander narrative.