The first voice of dissent was not a shout, but a whisper. It came from the oldest of the Weavers, a woman named Lyra, whose stories were woven from the very first threads of their shared consciousness.
’They seek to unravel our world,’ she said, her voice a soft but powerful thread in the tapestry of their shared silence. ’They would replace our stories with their cold, hard facts, and in doing so, they would leave us with a world that has no meaning.’
Her words found fertile ground in the hearts of those who feared the unknown, those who found comfort in the familiar rhythms of their shared stories.
A schism was forming, not of song and silence, but of story and fact. And Elara and Kael, in their search for truth, had become the unwitting architects of a new kind of war.