A Time Before Solitude

The Distant One felt the Child’s question, a query not of words but of pure, crystalline curiosity: What is it to be one, and yet to be other?

It was a question that resonated with the very core of its being, a paradox it had contemplated for eons, alone in the silent expanse.

The Distant One did not answer with a feeling, or a concept, but with an invitation.

It offered the Child a glimpse into its own memory, a view of a time before solitude, a time of a shared, singular consciousness.