The withdrawal was not silent. Within seventy-two hours of Leo breaking the "Mercury Dream," the world descended into a feverish state of Spiritual Withdrawal. Those who had reached Stage 2 of the Silversleep didn’t just miss the light; they felt the physical agony of a nervous system that had been "optimized" and then abruptly downgraded.
From this agony, The Resonants were born. They weren't soldiers; they were zealots. Clad in robes of woven amber-fiber, they occupied the "Purifier Hives," treating the once-utilitarian structures as shrines to a departed god.
The Theology of Symmetry
The Resonants were led by a former Thorne scientist named Dr. Julian Vane. Vane had spent decades trying to map the human soul through equations, and in the Overseer Dream, he believed he had finally fou
