📍 ISLAND 1 – The Crescent Beach
Virian, Zip, and Sector
Virian awoke first, tangled in seaweed and driftwood. The sun glared overhead—too bright, too harsh. Her magic was useless without the moon, leaving her only with aching limbs and worry.
Zip dragged a suitcase ashore, coughing. Frost formed instinctively on his fingers, but shattered from the heat.
Sector floated across jagged rocks, parts clinking like glass wind chimes.
Zip: “Any idea where we are?”
Virian (staring at the distant horizon): “Somewhere too close to the ocean… and too far from the moon.”
Sector stared blankly at a coconut.
Sector: “This is a rock.”
It was, in fact, a coconut.