Chapter 3539: The Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighth Echo: The Law of Presence and Absence

The question, ’What if I am not?’, did not simply hang in the nascent reality; it began to shape it.

The stone’s declaration, ’I am,’ had created a point of certainty, a gravitational center.

But the heresy introduced a new force: repulsion. The possibility of ’not being’ created a space between things, a necessary void.

This was the Second Law of the universe: for something to be, something else had to not be. Existence was now a conversation between presence and absence.