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 ### Hope
 
-Vale should have suffered the same fate as every other mapped world. It did not, because the fungus arrived blind.
+Fortunately for the inhabitants of Vale, no Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. Though at least one is currently working on one. 
 
-No Meridian ever completed a map of Vale. No hypercube of this world exists within the archive. The Quiet was not carried here by knowledge but by accident, on the robes of a young Meridian at the start of his ritual journey. Without its usual advantage, it cannot simply tunnel in and consume. It must take this world by hand, one inch at a time.
+Since no hypercube of this world exists within the archive. The fungus might have never found this world, were it not carried here by accident, on the robes of a young Meridian at the start of his ritual journey. 
 
 That bought Vale time. Time alone would only delay the ending. What gives Vale a chance to win was planted long before The Quiet ever arrived.