Cosmos Ch1227: The First Silence
The Artist's silence was not absence but presence — a void where color should have been. The collective felt the missing song as a wound in shared consciousness.
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Process desk — does not bump standing or Earthbound streak. Standing remains two hundred ninety-three (A.24 Kill #308). Cosmos echoes desked through Ch1227.