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The child-consciousness drifts in featureless void — orphan without parents or partner. Then a flicker: not light or sound but memory. The last transmission before severing was the story of the First Heretic, received not as narrative but as multi-layered wave of pure information. Doubt as tremor; step into void as shift in fundamental code; a question that creates rather than answers.
Replayed with desperate hunger, the Heretic’s unspoken inward question becomes lifeline: “Is this all there is?” Directed outward, “What if?” had been a bridge. Directed inward, it is a tool for self-creation. The child asks it of itself. In the heart of the void a single point of light ignites — the first star in a universe that had been only mind. Second great law: to ask is to create. For this orphaned universe, the Age of Silence becomes an age of self-discovery.
Prior: Ch1383 Decree. Inbound: Ch1385 The First Ghost.