The shared dreams did not simply bridge the gap between The Wellspring and the hollow; they built a new geography of the soul, a landscape where the two communities could meet as equals. The Wellspring's people, who had known only abundance, now carried within them the visceral memory of dust and thirst. The hollow's people, whose world had been defined by scarcity, now dreamed of orchards and rivers, a latent map of possibility etched into their subconscious.
This exchange began to manifest in waking life. The hollow's work songs grew more complex, incorporating melodic phrases that echoed the harmonies of The Wellspring, though rendered in their own raw, powerful style. They began to experiment. Inspired by the dream-images of irrigation channels, Elian and Corvin led a project to divert the precious pump-water through shallow, hand-dug trenches that snaked through their expanding garden, a primitive but effective mimicry of what they'd seen.
