We take the tale up in early February of 2011, when Sophia incites a group of boys to chase Taylor down and duct-tape her to a telephone pole. It all goes horribly wrong from the moment that they catch her. Things will never be the same again, for Taylor Hebert or for Brockton Bay.

Part 1 of the Bird Series. Taylor triggers and is sent to an insane asylum.

"At that exact moment, Taylor Hebert connected to a vast alien entity. In most universes, she gets the power to control insects, in some, she gets a slightly different power. In this universe, in some cosmic case of wrong telephone number, Taylor connected to the wrong vast alien entity. In this universe, for a few seconds, Taylor Hebert connected to the Tyranid Hive Mind."

Geneva Hastings is a bounty hunter from the Human Polity (a rather excellent series by Neal Asher). She and her passenger end up on a world that is strangely familiar, yet utterly bizarre; Earth Bet, as of 2011, in the Wormverse. Things are going to get interesting ...

Ten years previously, the Brockton Bay Brigade attacked Marquis in his home and defeated him; in time, he was sent to the Birdcage. What would happen if things went ... another way?

Taylor gets a different set of powers, and canon begins to diverge almost immediately ...

When Taylor makes a new friend at Winslow, it's not as good a thing as it seems ...