The soil broke, not with a heave, but with a gentle sigh.
What emerged was not a single spear of green, but a braid of three colors: the deep, rich brown of the soil, the pale, luminous white of the first dream, and the soft, warm gold of the first dawn.
It was a life form born not of one, but of three: the world, its children, and the memory of a dream.
And in its form, the three dwellers saw their own story, their own love, their own hope, reflected back at them.