Life Among Clouds

Use wisely.

The land was sullen. Beaten through by time and overuse. The people, the beings that lived here, had used up every last resource until they couldn’t occupy the land any longer. The lands were dead.

They then took to the skies.

They rigged up flying aparatusses, invented ways of floating in the sky, they built whole villages where they’d live in the clouds. It seemed beautiful in a way.

But they were just missing one thing.

Water.

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They needed water both for hydration and for fueling some of the machines that kept them afloat. A life source, as it always has been. They extracted a fair amount of moisture out of the clouds which would float by them in their stationary pose, but eventually they would need more.

One of them decided they would dig. Drill. Excavate. Water had to be beneath the dipleated ground. And so it was.

They carved huge, giant areas of land out and lifted them up and out as one single piece, creating these floating islands of sort. They were mu…