Chapter 3676: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-Fifth Echo: A Wall of Song Around the Crystal

The first crack in the fragile unity of the Weavers and Listeners appeared not as a shout, but as a subtle act of defiance.

A small group of Weavers, loyal to Lyra’s vision, began to build a wall of song around the crystal, a barrier of pure narrative designed to shield it from the ’cold touch of fact.’

It was a story of protection, a myth of a sacred object that would lose its power if subjected to the profane gaze of measurement and analysis.

The crystal, which had been a source of wonder and a catalyst for discovery, was now a prisoner of belief, and the cavern, once a space of shared creation, was now a battleground of competing realities.