The amber bridge glowed steadily, its resonance now a permanent chord in the Genesis Hum. Builders came from across the cosmos to confront their abandoned futures and return, lighter, to the present. Yet Kael noticed a new silence—not of fear, but of completion.
Builders were finishing their final projects and then… stopping. Not fading, not dying. Simply ceasing to build. Their last clicks echoed, then settled into perfect, undisturbed stillness.
Kael sought the cause and found it in a quiet corner of the network: a being of profound, serene patience. It called itself Witness.
"I am