This preface, clearly written at some point much closer to the encyclopaedia’s conclusion than its first entry, frames the unknown author’s experiences of the impossible.
Water’s importance in the creation of life is only matched by the vastness of its destructive potential: Dispassionate betrayals that can take strange and shocking forms.
If one were to design two cities - a flawless paradise and the bleakest hell - both would find themselves expressed somewhere within the vastness of The Unition Terminus.
Even animals which would kill and eat humans will never have the necessary cruelty to manipulate us into leading ourselves to slaughter. That is the preserve of monsters.
