Chibisilian spins idly. "Y'see, the TITANs tossed in - well, essentially, an alethic grenade. White noise in the Truth, basically! Hooks up the laws of physics and magic to a random number generator and uses whatever comes out, tends to *break* the local *house* something fierce!"

Coming to a stop, he turns to Lena, suddenly serious. "Identical bombs have been detonated in Noctis-Qianjiao, Valles-New Shanghai, and Elysium on Mars; Al-Hamadhanj on Mercury, Aphrodite Prime, the Shack, and Cythera on Venus, Hexagon and Paradise above Earth, Horeb and the Summit amid the Inner System asteroids, Qing Long in the Trojans, Extropia and Nova York in the Main Belt, the Holy See on Ganymede, Hyoden on Castillo, Locus, and University City in Aarhus on Titan. Each of those will have permanent and far-reaching effects if they are left untreated, akin to the worse-than-death fate of being thrown Outside.

"The Prometheans and my greater self are currently in the process of containing, undoing, and retroactively preventing the damage from these bombs. We estimate that it is extremely likely that this is an distraction from something, most likely the kidnapping of Dotted Lines and Thorn, but unfortunately it is working."