The Verse was a chessboard, and a game of impossible, cosmic scale was being played upon it. The forces of the Mad Author, the 'Dissonance', were the agents of chaos, their goal to deconstruct, to corrupt, to prove the ultimate meaninglessness of all stories. The Librarians of the Verse, Kael and Lyra, were the agents of order, their quest to find the Lost Note and complete the song of their reality a desperate attempt to reinforce the very concept of meaning.
The construction of Bastion was complete. It hung in a quiet, protected pocket of space-time, a world born of the memories of Nox and Serian, a perfect, final sanctuary. It was a library in the shape of a planet.
