Kognition: First Fragment

In the fall of 2074, twelfth-year Lisa Perdita is content with doing little more than playing the Global Multiplayer Game Kognition and focusing on her schoolwork. She is also known as the player persona Njorun, a notorious PvP goddess in Kognition's realm of Midgard. While in a typical area, Njorun comes across a dying player simply named 'Sarah.'What happens next changes her world in drastic ways. Heavily influenced by Norse mythology and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen epic opera, Kognition's Midgard is an endlessly-evolving world of user created fields, sprawling dungeons, seamless player-versus-player combat, and fearsome monsters. As one of the 'future children' of a generation where the next evolution of the Internet is literally inside the heads of its users, can Lisa Perdita maneuver through the game and her own life in order to find the mysterious 'Sarah' without losing herself to obsession and angering the will of the corporation that runs it?