The New World Unfold
The new world didn't explode into being.
It unfolded.
Petal by petal. Thread by thread. Memory by hope.
Eleanor stepped through the veil and into silence. Not the silence of fear, but the sacred stillness of something just beginning. The kind of quiet a soul experiences right before a story starts.
The land before her was raw and infinite. Rivers curved in spirals and shivered with possibility. Trees shimmered with threads of crystal in their bark, singing quietly to the sky. And the sky itself, it wasn't just blue. It was becoming blue, deepening with every step she took, as though it drew color from her presence.
This place was not a mirror of another world. It wasn't a reflection, a correction, or a response.
It was something new.
Because she was now the mirror.
And what she chose to reflect, would shape everything.
The Foundation
On the first day, Eleanor chose a hill.
Not too high, not too steep, just enough to see.