Shaun Hastings, of the ancient Monks of England, spent his childhood at an isolated hospital which moved one place a year. Over the years, he became closest to a prisoner who was brought there for tests. He later discovered that his father had died in a fall in Asia, after which his mother left the island he grew up in and started walking around the world for twelve years. She found him as he was leaving the hospital as an adult (the hospitalized prisoner had died in grade school), at which time his mother set him out on the same journey that she had begun. He decided he should set out in his own way, taking different paths from her, so he decided to start out one day a week, as she had, and walk 365 days a year. He tried to walk around England on alternating weeks, but even after he learned how to walk and live off the land, he stopped in the middle of the west, in Beijing. The young Chinese girl in that city informed him that the people of his city accepted him as one of them, and that the people in his own country would allow him to do whichever he pleased – no questions asked. He decided to "do great things" and had a dream in his sleep one night about the path to the looking-glass camp. He knew that in order to go there he would have to break the Union between each of the States that separated his country, as they had been the only reason China had been formed by the five hundred years before. From our country, we see the world as a whole, and from each one we can only see its part. Since being there, he has learned about life, death, and the things that should be done. It is during this time that the evil people that make up his sister's government (the Monks) pursue him, wanting to find this path to the golden sky. It is a blood-red path with moss growing on it, and at certain places there are gaping holes. In the holes there are tunnels to a castle in the middle of a lake where the people don't want to go. He is coming to the end of his journey, where he has just reached the end of the end of the end, and his path is now clear. He has fought off many of the Monks with himself, but he can't be in two places at the same time. So, a few years later, he passed away in a cave in the middle of a tropical island, with a woman next to him and her two children. He reverted to a baby in nappies, because the woman wanted a family, and there was much to do. He grew up with the woman and her two children.