An apprentice cartographer asks the unaskable — “what if the darkness we feel is not the memory of a lost light, but the presence of something else entirely?” — and the champions of free inquiry forge their first dogma. Orthodox vs Heretics. Title collision by ch# held (Heresy 1997/2007/2061/2089/2097).
A line is drawn: some questions deemed “unaskable.” The Age of Inquiry gains forbidden shores. Contiguous 69→2097, zero gaps, md5-distinct.
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