The silence of Olen, the first heretic, did not unify the nascent world.
Instead, it fractured it.
Two factions emerged from the quiet rebellion: the Stone-Speakers, who clung to the certainty of the first utterance, and the Questioners, who embraced the ambiguity of Olen’s silence.
For the Stone-Speakers, the world was a statement. For the Questioners, it was a conversation.