Protag is confronted by his wife about not spending enough time with his son.  In an effort to appease her he offers to play with him and read him a story before bedtime.  His son is about seven years old and has recently discovered a set of plastic toy soldiers in the local playground.  Protag discovers this accidentally when he sits on one in his son's bed.  

He wants to teach his son chess and it looks like his son was willing to play, but it soon backfires when his son pulls out more toy soldiers and uses them to kill the other chess pieces.

Finally when it's time for bed his son asks him to tell him a story.  He tells his son that he doesn't know any stories.  "Then just tell me one about soldiers,"  his son tells him rather nonchalantly.  This triggers a flashback to his encounter with Nut.  This is when he begins to tell the story of the great soldier who defeated all his enemies.  The story is told as a flashback, but when it ends the reader is not taken back to the son's bedroom, but to an ante-chamber with Nut who reveals to him that this story is just the beginning.  He has started, but he will need to find it's lost parts (chapters) that will help complete it. 

The soldiers story will serve as a backstory to his life.  The moral of the story will be that war is not the answer.  It can only lead to destruction and isolation (the island).  It's purpose is primarliy moral.  It's incomplete because morality is not the sole purpose of life. 

What is the next transition?  Story?