A queen prepares to leave her modern-day castle to travel the world, but, before she leaves, she grants you the keys and tells you the palace is yours to do with as you wish. Well, almost.
“There is just one exception,” the queen decrees. “Do not use my keys to unlock the door to the castle’s ancient basement dungeon!”
For a time, you follow this order, but, in your quieter moments, you can’t shake the feeling that something important lies hidden from you. You find yourself caught with a choice between the ignorance you are living with and the feeling that behind this door lives something you have not yet named but is of great significance. At last, you decide to place the key in the dungeon lock and push the door ajar.
The World as It Was
The world anthropologists tell us humanity lived in for almost all of our two hundred thousand year history on this planet. In this world, humans are born into........