“Do you think God still hears us?” she asked softly, as if the question might break from its own tenderness.
Her companion, Caelen, didn’t look at her. His gaze was fixed just beyond the sun.
“God doesn’t hear,” he said at last. “He
remembers.”
This world, this era born of peace, hadn’t come from prayer—but from sacrifice, from
losses, and from the realization that humanity was not made in the image of gods, but in the remnants of their
memory.
“We are the
echo,” Elira whispered. “A memory God keeps—not because we are holy, but because we are
fragile.”
And in this utopia, fragility was the last sacred thing. Not strength. Not power. But the ability to weep even when no one hurts you. To love even when there is nothing left to
fear.