That didn't work out very well, and so a second Universe was created. The Creator began by creating a Staircase which would link all of the second Universe together, for one of the flaws in the first was that its worlds were separated by distances far too great to cross.
Countless worlds were then created, each only a flight of stairs above the previous.
To begin the population of the second Universe, the Creator made a Woman. The Woman stood on the staircase for a time, pondering the shape and portent of this new Universe, and then chose to travel