Home is more than a way out.A family's search for home reaches the deepest purpose of Daedalus's creation. The answers matter to people living inside the mystery, trying to understand the Labyrinth without losing their hold on one another.
The family is still searching for a way home from the Labyrinth when that search reaches toward the deepest purpose of Daedalus's creation. Understanding what the immense invention was built to do becomes inseparable from the hope of leaving it. Its physical intelligence presents a problem that must be understood, while the pressures of survival make the family's trust in one another essential. The search brings the great mystery of the Labyrinth back to the people living inside it: they need answers that can help them find their way home together.
Home is more than a way out.
Ori Refael PeretzExploratory trilogy proposal
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The Labyrinth’s purpose.
The Heart and Daedalus’s final invention appear in an exploratory outline. Their role in the story is still being considered.
Home is more than a way out.
Ori Refael PeretzExploratory trilogy proposal
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Finding a way home.
The intended conclusion returns the scale of the Labyrinth to a human desire: to survive and bring one another home.
Home is more than a way out.
Ori Refael PeretzExploratory trilogy proposal
The catalogueHome is more than a way out.Exploratory trilogy proposal
A proposed concluding movement
The possibility of a way home.
The Last Thread is a proposed concluding movement of Enter the Labyrinth. It would bring the family’s search for a way home into contact with the deepest purpose of Daedalus’s creation.
The proposed title belongs to an exploratory trilogy. The final revelations, role of the Minotaur and consequences of escape remain unwritten.
The Labyrinth’s purpose
One outline explores the Heart, Daedalus’s final invention and a choice about whether humanity might open the Labyrinth again. Each remains a possibility for development.
The intended conclusion must bring the scale of that constructed world back to the desire at the center of the story: people who belong to one another trying to survive and find their way home.
The story in development
Shaping the final movement
The ending and the division of material between later books will determine whether a trilogy serves the story. Neither this title nor its proposed position is final.
Detail from the cover concept
The visual identity
The thread through the image.
The cover concept for The Last Thread. Explore the complete artwork at a larger size.
