The Unyielding Stone

Silas’s first discovery was not a grand edifice or a forgotten god. It was a single, perfect cobblestone, unearthed from beneath the soft, dreamed-of soil. When he presented it to the Gardeners, it was met with confusion. It was hard, unyielding, a stark contrast to their fluid, malleable world. It was a memory of a world with rules, a world that did not bend to their will. It was the first echo of a reality they had forgotten, and it was a seed of a new kind of story.