Chapter 3596: The Two Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Fifth Echo: The First Exiles

The Stone-Speakers’ edict was swift and uncompromising.

The young Questioner who had spoken out at the Unveiling, along with a handful of their most vocal supporters, were named, their heresy condemned, and their exile declared.

They were given one cycle of the sun to gather their belongings and depart from the community, their names to be struck from the records, their presence to be forgotten.

It was a move intended to be a surgical strike, a clean removal of a cancerous growth. But it was also a spark, and the kindling of rebellion was far drier than the Stone-Speakers knew.