The voices didn't attack each other. But they didn't accept each other either.
In the Carving Garden, resonance began to shift. The Kalimantan stone trembled harder whenevr the Maluku stone sang, The Wamena stone dimmed when the teh air. As if each stone began to question its place.
Yohwa sat in teh center of the garden, trying to listen to them all. But the voices were no longer harmonious. They competed not to win, but to be acknowledged.
"This isn't war," Rava said. "it's misunderstanding that hasn't that hasn't been given space."
Numa tried aligning the frequencies. But each time he brought one stone closer to another, the resonance turned chaotic. "They're not rejecting each other," he said. "They jsut don't know whow to listen."
Lonto from Sulawesi stood before her question stone. "We don't want to sing," she said. "We want to ask. But other stones feel disturbed by our silence."
A Satria from Maluku replied, "We sing not to dominante. But because oru sea speask in waves. We don't know how to ask."
Yowha looked at them. "Mayeb we rushed the garden's unity. Mayeb we need space between voices."
That night, Yowha dreamed. He stood in a garden split into four sections. Each held its own voice. But in teh center, there was empty space. And from that space, an echo emerged not form any stien. it was born from distance.
He woke with new undrstanding. The next morning, he asked for the stones to be moved. Not far, But spaced. Each stone stood with enouh distance not to drown the others.
Children begna drawing the new garden. They made paths between stones. They wrote: Betwenn voices, there is space to hear.
Rava carved a small stone in teh center. No symbols. just a spiral that didn't touch its edge. "This is teh space between," she said. "Where voices can meet without swallowing each other."
The Soul Eclipse began to spin faster. But no in anger. Because it began to hear echoes born from misunderstanding .
And Yohwa, for the first time, didn't try to nify. He simply held the space where voices could see each other.