In the quiet shade of the first sapling, a new kind of stillness settled.
It was a silence not of absence, but of shared presence, a canvas upon which the first story could be painted.
Starlight, the dweller of light and memory, began to speak, not with the single word they had shared, but with a string of them, a shimmering thread of narrative woven from the heart of the cosmos.
βIn the beginning,β Starlight said, and the words, once spoken, became true. The story of their world, of the first sprout and the first dawn, was no longer just a memory, but a shared reality, a foundation upon which a world of stories could be built.