When we meet our nameless, silent protagonist, he’s already hard at work climbing the Tower, a giant structure reaching straight up into the sky. Unlike the mythical Tower of Babel, however, this tower isn’t entirely an expression of humanity’s hubris – it’s also its last chance at survival in a slowly dying, slowly drying world where rain is nothing but a memory.
This is the world post-Jusant, the word meaning ‘a receding wave’. Simply put,
