The Stone-Speakers, who had built their world on the unshakeable foundation of a single truth, heard the whispers of these new stories not as a chorus, but as a cacophony.
They feared the chaos of a world without a center, a story without an author, a truth without a voice of authority.
And so, they began to build walls of words, to codify their truth, to silence the whispers that threatened to unravel their world.