Chapter 128: The Universal Language
Five years after the First Weaving in Hope's Reach, the network had matured from a conscious practice into a culture. The principles of the Schematic Praxis were no longer taught as emergency measures, but as foundational wisdom, woven into cradle songs and school curriculums. The "Great Schematic" in Lyra's institute had grown so vast it occupied an entire hall, a breathtaking, room-sized tapestry of interconnected nodes and glowing lines, updated daily by a rotating guild of cartographers.
Lyra, now in her mid-twenties, found her work shifting once more. She was no longer mapping the recovery of the world, but its flourishing connections. Her most recent project was not a map of places, but of concepts. She was attempting to chart the "Morphology of Meaning" how a core idea like "sanctuary" or "justice" branched and adapted as it traveled from the moorlands to the coast, from Frosthold's disciplined halls to the Barrens' rugged homesteads.
