Both Real and Imagined

The debate was held in a field of softly glowing moss. The Menders argued that the cobblestone was a dead thing, a remnant of a story that had failed. To incorporate it would be to invite rigidity and decay into their living narrative. Silas and his followers, who now called themselves the Archaeologists, countered that their world, for all its beauty, lacked substance. The cobblestone was not an endpoint, but a beginning. It was proof that a story could be both real and imagined, and that by weaving the two together, they could create something more enduring than either.