The question hung: I am here? Silence listened across the whole landscape. Then an answer came — not from the being who asked, but from the world itself.
The sprout unfurls a new leaf unlike the others: a perfect spiral, living calligraphy of the question's upward inflection. Not words. Not sound. Form.
"It said, 'I am growing.'"
Title note: Ch954 was also “The First Answer” — live HTML by number wins; desked as Ch967. Arc: First Phrase (965) → First Question (966) → First Answer (967). Continuity of the music-as-language thread intact through motif, inquiry, and living reply.
Tip 6545. Standing held two hundred eighty-one. Process desk.
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