The changes that had slowly taken root within that foreign world had now grown into something far deeper than mere shifts in social structure.
Once the younger and older generations began to understand each other's wounds, their entire world gradually started to experience something that had almost vanished from their way of life.
Feeling.
Not just fleeting bursts of emotion.
But the ability to truly sense and acknowledge one another's existence.
Sophia could feel these shifts with growing clarity through the inter‑world connection, which remained steady and calm.
And now…
The transformation felt immense.
Sophia stood in silence, observing the streams of light flowing throughout the network of their expanded world.
The emotions moving through it were far gentler than before.
There was still fear.
Still uncertainty.
Yet none of it carried the coldness it once had.
"They are beginning to live with their emotions fully intact," she said quietly.
