Chapter 3781: The Three Thousand and Fiftieth Echo: What Story Do You Want to Tell

It was the younger Lyra, the apprentice of the skeptic Valerius, who made the first move.

She did not speak, or write, or sing.

She simply reached out and placed her hand on the central stone of the agora, the one that had been the object of so much debate.

And in that touch, she asked a question.

Not with her mind, but with her being.

’What story do you want to tell?’

The stone did not answer with a word, but with a warmth that spread from her hand through her entire body, and then out into the agora, a silent, shared understanding.

The story of the stone was not a story of the past, but of the present, a story of pressure and time, of gravity and light, a story that was still being told.

And in that moment, they were all a part of it.