CAST
Four
The family is the material on the real side: tungsten light, cloth, milk, wood. However strange the Echoscape becomes, it has to grow out of this table, this bedroom.
35 · Mid-level in tech · first-time father
Lu Yi
卢意
Rational, anxious, used to solving everything with logic. His arc is not becoming a better hero. It is ceasing to be a translator and learning to listen: fear, inquiry, control, then letting go.
32 · New mother, still recovering
Lin Yue
林悦
The intuitive anchor on the real side. She does not speak Echoscape grammar. She knows the child. Some understanding does not need a story that closes—she has been living this longer than he has.
three months · Silent world-maker
Huntun
馄饨
He does not speak, and he does not run the plot. Every echoscape grows from his raw-sense. No knowing lines. No infant who stages an adventure on purpose.
gone · He was a Walker too
Lu's father
卢父
He died the year Lu Yi was born. The river jade is a gift thirty-five years late. The last page of the diary is torn out. It leaves a deeper question, not an answer.