Lisa Perdita is a Future Child, one of many who live in an age of endless digital-world connection. Secretly she is also Njorun, an infamous player-persona in the world's most popular video game: Kognition. Between juggling schoolwork and her personal life, she has spent much of the last ten years in Kognition's world of Midgard. First Fragment explores the beginning of the Cycle, an opening act pushed forward by death. Second Stage continues the Kognition epic by taking Lisa Perdita beyond the game itself. This edition collects First Fragment and Second Stage together for the first time with new and updated content from the author, and two short stories that further establish the characters of Lisa Perdita and Hayden Itagaki.