A hundred-thousand people. There one day, gone the next. 12 universes, fighting to be the one and only who's granted salvation in the end. A failing over-achiever, a soul swallowed by a mask, a caged dreamer, and a freed prisoner are taken with them, all to a city that looks so much like home but isn't. They must cultivate their "seed" -a power uniquely suited to every individual-and survive. All to prepare for a battle they aren't even sure is real. All to serve the greater purposes of the omnipotent overseers who watch from above and lead their respective universes, the Arbiters.     How can the Chosen of universe 11 defeat their dangerously eager competition when they can't even reconcile with themselves? When they don't even have an Arbiter by their side.