Chapter 3702: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-First Echo: A World Built on Sand

The erasure of the story of the sand sent a shockwave through the community, and the old fault lines, so recently bridged, began to tremble.

The Weavers, who had built their world on the permanence of narrative, felt a profound and terrifying vertigo. Their world, once again, felt as if it were built on sand.

The Listeners, however, felt a strange and unsettling thrill. The silence that followed the erasure was not empty, but full of a new, unspoken potential.