The Broken Eye - Pg 333

   All the world turned around the Jaspers, but the Jaspers were not the world... He realized there was now no sign at all of the sea demon attack that had nearly demolished this bridge. The sea demon itself hadn't been seen since the Feast of Light and Darkness, nor the black whale. The mess had been cleared, the dead taken away--and none of them were people Kip had known, or known by people Kip knew. It was like it hadn't happened. 

   This is what it is to live in the cosmos that is the Jaspers. The world changes here, but there is not one world, there are many, and we only see the others when they tread upon our toes.