*Serycia Fade, a slave marked for death...* I run into the most impoverished level of our walled city, where poisons and toxins swirl in oily black puddles on the streets, and people are gathering in a square in line for food. But they can't be here. I scream at them to get out, get away. And the world explodes. *Soren Lost, a Level 1 nonentity...* She breaks into my life like a shard of sunlight shining in a squalid world just before the square explodes. Staggering out of the rubble, she offers me a pill that will give me a month of health in exchange for me getting her back out of Level 1....