Chapter 3697: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Sixth Echo: A Crack in the Wall of Song

Lyra was taken aback. She had expected an argument, a rebuttal, a competing fact. She had not expected a question.

For the first time since the emergence of the ’song of the stone,’ a flicker of something other than fear stirred within her: curiosity.

She did not answer, not yet, but the wall of song around her heart, for the first time, had a crack in it.