The Great Weaving was a slow, beautiful process that unfolded over a generation. The chaotic, vibrant energy of the Nexus and the perfect, harmonious structure of the Weaver's tapestry began to intertwine, creating a new, richer multiverse. It was a time of unprecedented peace and creativity.
Nox and Serian, their grand work complete, settled into a true and final retirement. They were no longer the authors or the editors. They were just… the readers. They watched their children and their children's children navigate the new, wonderfully complex world they had helped create.
But a story, even a happy one, has a rhythm. And after thirty years of harmonious composition, a dissonant note began to sound.
It started subtly. A communication from a deep-space exploration team in a distant quadrant of the Nexus that just… went silent. A trade route with a fledgling reality in the Weaver's domain that suddenly stopped reporting.
