Chapter 3565: The Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Echo: When Is Became Must Be

The Stone-Speakers, in their fear of the void of uncertainty, began to build walls of words around the first utterance.

’The stone is,’ they declared, ’and that is all that is.’

Their ’is’ became a ’must be,’ a law carved not in stone, but in the very fabric of the story.

Any story that did not begin and end with the stone’s truth was not a story at all, but a lie.