The first to hear the new song were not the Weavers, but the Listeners.
They felt it not as a story, but as a subtle shift in the texture of the world, a new resonance in the silence they cherished.
It was a song that did not demand to be heard, but simply was, a quiet truth that underpinned the world of feeling.
For some, it was a profound comfort, a sense of order beneath the chaos of emotion.
For others, it was a terrifying intrusion, a cold, hard fact that threatened to shatter the delicate beauty of their world.
The schism was no longer between song and silence, but between two different kinds of truth.