The Unhealed Wound

The ‘Second Inquiry’ was a far more arduous process than the first. The Riptide schism was not a distant memory, but a wound that had never truly healed. The ‘Living History’ was filled with conflicting accounts, each one colored by the pain and passion of the past. The ‘Right of Inquiry’ provided a framework for their dialogue, but it could not erase the bitterness of old grievances. The community was forced to confront the messy, contradictory nature of their own history, and the weight of that history threatened to tear them apart.