The Law of Reciprocity

In the nascent world of the Gardeners, there was no law, only a shared, unspoken understanding. It was Wren who first gave it a name: The Law of Reciprocity. Not a rule to be enforced, but a description of what already was. To give a memory was to receive a world. To offer the sensation of a sun-warmed stone was to feel the collective warmth of a thousand such stones, each unique, each a part of the whole. This was the foundation of their new story, a tale written not by a single author, but by a chorus of whispers, each one strengthening the other, each one a testament to their shared existence.