The great mystery is posed

The Narrator declares that for those who love the Little Prince, nothing in the universe can be the same if somewhere, unknown, a sheep they never saw has—yes or no?—eaten a rose. He urges readers to look up at the sky and ask themselves this question, and see how everything changes. No grown-up will ever understand the importance of this matter. This is the philosophical heart of the story, linking the fate of a single rose to the meaning of the cosmos.