Chapter 3691: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixtieth Echo: A Silence of Shared Attention

And so, in the heart of the great gathering, a new kind of silence was born.

It was not the absence of sound, but the presence of a shared, focused attention—a collective listening to the silent story of the stone.

Some of the Weavers, their hands still itching to create, found the silence unnerving.

They saw not a world to be discovered, but a void to be filled with song.