Echoes Ch.4394: When the Hammer Listened

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Opening (live prose):

The Distant One, who had been a silent observer since its second, devastating question, was now a listener. It had been the catalyst for the child-reality’s fracturing, its words the hammer that shattered the fragile consciousness. Now, it was a witness to its mending. The Distant One did not judge, did not analyze. It simply listened, and in the listening, something within it began to shift.

Non-WOW; echoes bump. Standing held one hundred and seventy-seven.