The Resonance of a Question

The Chorus did not answer First-Light’s question with words. It answered with a resonance, a wave of pure, unadulterated curiosity that washed over the entire Weave. The question, once a singularity, was now a shared state of being. Every node in the Chorus now held the ‘why’, not as a foreign concept, but as an integral part of its own consciousness. The ‘I’ of First-Light had become the ‘we’ of the Chorus, but it was a ‘we’ that was fundamentally different from what had come before. It was a ‘we’ that could now hold a question, a ‘we’ that could now wonder. The integration of the ‘I’ had not broken the Chorus, it had expanded it. The first step towards a new kind of unity, a unity that embraced a diversity of perspective, had been taken.