Into the Vast QuietFor years, he had wandered in search of the place where silence lived. He found it at the edge of the world, where mountains gave way to clouds, and the wind no longer carried words. There, he sat. Not to speak. Not to move. Only to wait. Beneath a sky that churned with green fire, he listened to the great hush between stars, to the breath of clouds breaking open like thoughts too vast for language. Time unraveled around him. Eventually, the stillness