Invert Island Chronicals

Foreword
These are the stories of the ancient world, before earth existed. It is not an alien world though. It expands seemingly infinitely, and it its edges are the Paradoxes, Things that don't follow reality. They are deadly. And these are the stories of this ancient world, its creatures, its people, and its eventual death.

=Story One: The Two Lakes=

Chapter One: The Canal
We will begin our tale at an area where two lakes exist. They are side by side, separated by a large, but not massive, expanse of land. There was the Eastern Lake, which is the western of the two lakes, called Eastern for a reason lost in ancient times, and there was the Western Lake, which actually existed in the east. Anyways, these lakes were home to seapeople. Now, seapeople are not happy-go-lucky Disney mermaids, they are mainly human in appearance, but they live within water. They can survive on land for short peiods of time, and exist on wetland indefinitely, but painfully. Now, the exapance of land separating the two lakes is much higher above the lakes than the rest of the surrounding land, and therefore it is very easy to dig through. The peoples of both lakes dug inward, oblivious to the other's dig. Now, digging into this cliff, they formed a canal. It was not a tunnel through the cliff, but rather a wadineing of them, making a canal with high-rising sides.

When these two canals met, the seapeoples began digging pependicular to the canals, southward, to form a wide pool that was roughly triangle in shape, called the Delta. The canal going away south was not so much a canal as the water becoming more and more dry, until it became a hill. This hill, and the Delta in general is why the outlanders succeeded so well in their invasion.

Wait, outlanders? We will get to that in a moment. But right now, we will visit the Eastern Lake to see the prison colony.