The crew of the Verisimilitude has discovered five variables, mysterious artifacts with locked secrets. Septima, the woman known for solving the unsolvable, is on the case. She quickly discovers a word in the puzzle: Anacaan, the ancient home of the Suppala where Krios hails from. Vigil insists that they must go there or the search for what happened to her parents was for nothing, but Krios warns that Anacaan does not wait in welcome...