A Cage of Gold

The silence in the Verse following the realization of the tyranny of their own creation was a new kind of silence. It was not the silence of peace, but the silence of a held breath. The ‘perfect peace’ they had woven into the fabric of their reality had become a gilded cage, beautiful to behold, but a cage nonetheless. The first to challenge it was not a warrior or a philosopher, but an artist known as ‘Whisper-of-Dissonance.’