Chapter 3728: The Two Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Seventh Echo: We Seek Not to Undo but to Understand

The silence that fell between Lyra and Elara was not an absence, but a presence.

It was a living thing, a weight of unspoken histories and clashing futures.

Lyra, her voice a fragile thread against the immense quiet, spoke first.

“You would undo us with your silent stones,” she whispered, her words not an accusation, but a lament.

“No,” Elara replied, her voice steady, clear, a counterpoint to Lyra’s sorrow. “We seek not to undo, but to understand.”