After a sudden accident, your life in the old world ends, or at least it should have. Instead of dying, you wake up in Palya, a strange city built around a single portal on the beach. That portal brings in people who came close to death back in the normal world, and over time, those survivors built a new society around it. What started as a refuge became a full city with jobs, housing, politics, routines, secrets, and a population full of people trying to adapt to lives they were never supposed to have.