Chapter 3662: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-First Echo: How to Hold the Truth of a Stone

Elara withdrew from the silent circle of her people.

The shared consciousness, once a source of comfort and connection, now felt like a vast, empty room, echoing with an unanswerable question.

She turned her focus inward, past the silence, past the echo of Kael’s question, searching for the source of the new, fainter question that had taken root in her own consciousness.

And there, in the deepest part of her being, she found it: not a question of ’what,’ but a question of ’how.’ How does one build a world that can hold the truth of a stone?