From the introduction: You really did it this time, Jumper. Your Chain is over. You’ve been cut off and thrown aside. Where there once was a feeling of power and freedom in your soul, there is a sore pain of emptiness and newfound mortality. Where the reassuring embrace of your companions once was, there is now the cold hand of solitude and the dispassionate gaze of an uncaring cosmos. Your Benefactor is gone now, you are The Jumper no more. Even worse, you seem to have drawn the ire of other Benefactors as well. You must have done something terrible to set them off and after you. Goodness knows just what exactly it is you did...