Oh! I am so sorry, I did misunderstand a little bit. So is "the Void" then where our characters have come from?
I was thinking something sort of structuralist in nature, like a combination of Levi-Strauss' and Saussure's ideologies. Sort of the idea that the world exists on a thinly laid foundation of language, and that the world around us already existed as a "void" world and that it was being labelled and, in a way, "created" as we experienced and named things, even if our characters already had a predisposed idea of what was already there.
Edit: But I don't think my post reflected that very well, all I was trying to get across was that she doesn't know what is the cause of the storm (due to the fact that meteorology would not be a thing) so she is hypothesizing that the cause is a "beast".
About how much of that is right? lol. Thanks for saying something by the way! We should be on the same page. :)
Also, Shan is fine! I don't mind, did you want me to name your character? (I might just put something in my post which I am about to write and I will change it if you want!)