Chapter 2 At sea
June 30, 2026 at 8:46 AM
After several days since the last island we came across but after a few days of seeing nothing but water boredom and sea sickness took hold of the crew but I remained strong [Atlas writes as tries not to throw up] after adjusting to the sea sickness the only thing we had to worry about was the massive amount of boredom thankfully we had Celeste the ever joyous she would sing songs perform dances and everyone else joined in whenever she did
With Celeste keeping moral high the entire crew manage to do their duties and by sun set one of the crew mates caught sight of land and screamed out "Land ho." Everyone moved turning our ship into the direction of the sight of land and when set foot on the island the first thing that caught our interest were the structures carved stone just like the last island we came across we search the entire island the stones were clearly carved by something hard and sharp
We couldn't find any sign of a tool that could carve such pattern so we come up with a few theories one: The stone carvers had claws and developed an intelligence to create. two: The craftsmen carried their tools everywhere and since we couldn't find any bodies or graves or anything that resembles a tomb or memorials we assume the natives that once called this land home meaning one of two outcomes
One: This islands former inhabitants decided to leave their home for whatever reason we probably won't know
Or two: Or something wiped out this islands inhabitants what I hope we never come across
We recorded everything we saw and even took some of the smaller carved figures maybe children toys or something else they took as souvenirs and continued on our voyage and after half a day we came across a much larger land mass and at the sight of it I smiled the crew smiled for we now had more to explore
After dropping anchor and setting foot on this new land we began our exploration at first we came across nothing but flora and fauna but we did not give up there was more to this land and we aimed to find it, after two days we came across our first sign of intelligent life. It looked like well I didn't what it look like but this is the best way I could describe it
It's skin was as white at bone it had four limbs at the end of each were hands and clawed fingers and had a tail that looked like a chain made bones that is what I will call it the bone tail, the bone tail seemed to be using it's clawed fingers to carve this managed to confirm that is was this creatures kind were the ones who carved the stone slabs on the previous islands they come across
Not wanting to scare it away I approached it alone making sure it knew I meant no harm it was startled but didn't run