Changes that first appeared only within small groups of the younger generation in that foreign world slowly began to spread far more widely.
Not through great upheavals or open rebellion, but through small shifts in the way they spoke, thought, and built relationships with one another.
Sophia could perceive all of it with increasing clarity through the faint connection linking the two worlds.
And the more deeply she perceived it,
The stronger her sense became that they were witnessing the birth of something that had never existed before.
Sophia stood in silence, watching the flowing streams of light woven throughout the network of their new world.
The emotions moving within it felt calmer now than they had ever been.
But that calm did not mean the difficulties were over.
On the contrary it was precisely because change was becoming real and tangible.
"They are beginning to build a new way of life," she said softly.
