Skein (Noun): 1A length of yarn or thread, loosely coiled and knotted. 2 A tangled or complicated arrangement, state, or situation.
Every person is a product of the world that they come from. Every world is a single grain of the sea of stars. Every sea is a cosmos unto itself that flows into every other sea.
A story grows from the interactions of the characters; with each other, with the material things they utilize, with the world they live in.
The Skein is the pattern of those interactions