It was a song not of melody, but of mathematics.
Kael, his voice a quiet counterpoint to the silent hum of the crystal, began to articulate the patterns they had discovered.
The resonance, the angles of the facets, the precise interval of time between each pulse of light—it was a language of pure structure.
Elara, listening, felt a new kind of beauty unfurl within her, a beauty not of feeling, but of understanding.
This, she realized, was the beginning of their ’song of the whole world’—a story built not on the shifting sands of emotion, but on the bedrock of immutable truth.
It was a story that did not need to be believed to be true.