It is the In-Between Time!

An ancient Storyteller sits on a deserted beach, gazing steadily Eastward into the brilliant red-orange face of the morning sun. As it rises, Time begins to spiral inward upon itself, and he is transported into that fiery center.

The years and memories spin backward, past recorded history, past the destruction and the great flooding, past the Time of Tribulation, to a time before the present world began.