The Patient Stone
Mountains dream in epochs. What seems like stillness is simply movement too slow for mortal eyes. The stones beneath your feet have been continents, ocean floors, and the hearts of volcanoes.
The Stone Whisperers of the Crystal Caverns pressed their ears to bedrock and heard the Earth's heartbeat—slow and certain, one pulse per millennium, each beat reshaping coastlines.
"Patience is not waiting. Patience is understanding that all things happen in geological time. Your lifetime is but a single grain of sand."
— The Granite Oracle, age unknown