Elara and Kael felt the weight of the challenge, the eyes of their entire world upon them.
They did not confer in song, but in the silent language of shared understanding, a language of pure structure and logic.
To answer a song with a song would be to play Lyra’s game, to accept the premise that the world was built on story alone.
They would not sing.
They would show.
Their answer would be a demonstration, a single, irrefutable fact that would either stand or fall on its own merits.