In a strange world of black skies and monolithic towers, a story is being told; of a scientist and his enormous machine with the power to draw those from our world to theirs. In the scientist’s desperation to prove his invention useful, he activates it. At the same time, a young boy by the name of Fox living in nineteenth-century England accidentally falls into an old well on his family estate �" and is sent spiraling into this other-world. Almost two hundred years later, another victim arises: Three, an American soldier fighting in World War II who suffers from amnesia, waking from unconsciousness moments before his ship is attacked and sunk by a German submarine. Instead of drowning, he reappears in a sea off the coast of an enormous city. Not long after, a mute woman in Italy by the name of Sordina is sucked through her bathtub during an attempted suicide, and in current day New York City, Terrier �" leader of a small band of orphan runaways �" is kidnapped along with his friends and sent off to an unknown place. However, the trip goes amiss when the van carrying them is thrown off a bridge by an inexplicable explosion. While attempting to save the other children, Terrier is pulled down by the sinking van, losing consciousness in the process. When he wakes, he is in the house of a crazed watchmaker and his daughter, neither of which are able to explain how his body passed into a different world and washed ashore on their island. In the time that follows, all parties find themselves on different sides of a civil war, trying to survive this world and figure out how to return to theirs. All the while, a mysterious man in a restaurant seemingly knows the outcome of it all.
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