Lyra, seeing the fear in her people, knew she had to act.
She gathered the Weavers and began to spin a tale of the world before the great unraveling, a story of a world held together by the power of a single, unifying song.
Her voice was a balm, a thread of memory in a world that was forgetting itself.
But even as she wove her spell, the silence at the edge of the world grew deeper.