Chapter 3704: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Seventy-Third Echo: From a Crack to a Chasm

The fading of the story sent a tremor of fear through the community.

For the Weavers, it was a confirmation of their deepest fears: a world without a story was a world that could not hold itself together.

For the Listeners, however, it was something else entirely: a new kind of silence, one that held not absence, but potential.

The schism, once a subtle crack, was now a chasm.