Can you be sure of what is real? For almost seventy years Jetaru Dark has been living inside a simulation. In a cabin, deep in the Infinite Forest, she waits to awaken back into her real life. But one day two teenagers knock at her door, causing her to leave the forest and make her way to a village beside the sea; there, she comes to see that her concept of what is real and what is not, may not be accurate. This is the second book in The Variables Collection, but the collection can be read in any order.