The changes that had begun to take root in that foreign world were slowly growing into something far greater than anyone had first expected.
Even though the explorers had chosen to keep their distance and no longer exerted any pressure, the very existence of the new world had left an influence that continued to spread silently.
Sophia could feel these ripples of change through the faint connection that still linked the two worlds together.
And as time went on…
It became harder and harder for that foreign world to ever return to what it had once been.
Sophia stood in silence, watching the flow of light across the entire network of their new world.
Its rhythm was now far more stable than it had been some time ago, yet beneath that calm surface, she could sense something constantly shifting and moving.
Change.
Slow.
But inevitable.
"They are beginning to transform from within," she said softly.
