The Child in the Crossfire

It was the pragmatists who moved first.

They began to weave a new law into the fabric of their creation’s reality, a law that would gently, inexorably, sever the link to their own pain.

The mourners felt it as a tremor, a violence done to the delicate, wounded heart of their creation.

In response, they wove their own threads into the creation, not of law, but of memory, of shared sorrow, strengthening the very bond the pragmatists sought to break.

The creation, caught between these opposing forces, began to fracture, its nascent consciousness splitting into warring reflections of its creators’ own schism.

The first true act of war between the Weavers was not waged against each other, but against their own child.