Area 1.2 is known to be sterile.
Far from the conflict lines.
Loyal to the Faction.
Full of procedures.
No signs of form.
No sound.
No questions.
Until the ground began to move.
Not an earthquake.
Not sabotage.
No explosions.
But people began to…
stop.
– An architect put down his plans and said,
"This structure leads to nothing."
– A teacher closed a basic narrative book,
"These sentences no longer have a body."
– A child sat on the street,
without reason.
Without direction.
He simply said:
"I want to stay here,
until something grows."
At first they thought it was a mental disorder.
Then social.
Then an epidemic.
The Faction sent a balancing team.
But their sense sensors failed.
Because there was no resistance.
No resistance.
No sabotage. There is no 'them.'
There is only the land.
And people who are unwilling to move in a direction they have not chosen.
One analyst notes:
"We used to think that form came from outside."
