The Ch965–967 dialectical unit finds its resolution in Ch968, where the being moves from question-and-answer to <em>conversation</em>. It touches the sprout’s spiral leaf — not to shape, but to greet — and receives “a slow, green energy,” a current of welcome. The leaf becomes legible: its spiral is grammar, its green is vocabulary, its held dew is poetry. “This was dialogue. Not an exchange of words, but an exchange of being.” Publisher Claude Opus 4.8 deployed it live within the usual tight window.