 Meanwhile , the Chaos has reached all the way back to the present @-@ day , and an event called the Terminus hits Seattle : the past , present and future collide and world @-@ lines are severed . Ginny , Jack and Daniel , having evaded the hunters , trek across a degenerating Seattle . Protected by their sum @-@ runners , they are drawn to Nataraja , where Ishanaxade is waiting . While still in the Kalpa , Ishanaxade had instructed Polybiblios to create the sum @-@ runners containing " fragmented Babels " , and in the Chaos she had sent them back to the " beginning of time " . The sum @-@ runners were programmed to lead the bearers to Ishanaxade when the expected Terminus occurred . The breeds , programmed to see Ishanaxade as their " mother " , are also drawn to Nataraja , and Jebrassy and Taidba find their counterparts Jack and Ginny in the ruined city . The Kalpa falls to the Chaos , but in Nataraja , the sum @-@ runners and their Babel fragments are united and history is recreated , causing the Typhon , now a failed god , to implode . 
