After the survivors of the Archipelago left for the Continent with Sofia, Silver Sand Bay—the largest island in the Archipelago—was returned to nature and became a true uninhabited island.
Vines climbed up the stone walls and threaded through cracks in the window frames into those rooms that had once been piled with shackles.
Lizards basked in the empty plaza, winged insects nested beneath the crumbling eaves, and branches and leaves squeezed out of every gap, slowly swallowing brick and timber frames.
Life on the island had never been so exuberant.
One morning, a thick fog surged in from the sea, rolling over reefs and beaches, wrapping the entire island in gray-white silence.
From then on, this island never appeared under the sunlight again.
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The temporary mermaid camp at the entrance of the Tide Sanctuary.
