StoryTree
you are here

Ninety Fathoms to Anywhere

adventure◐ Teen
5 contributors · 4 paragraphs deep

Halfway down, the chain jammed. The bell stopped with a jolt and swung in the black water. "It's caught on something," Sefu said, his voice tight. Through the small window, Iyla saw a tangle of old fishing nets wrapped around the rafters of a sunken roof, holding them fast.

Instead of cutting free, Iyla studied the sunken roof holding them. "That's the old library," she whispered. "Dad used to bring me here." A second door hung open below, and inside she could see shelves still stacked with sealed metal cases. Maybe the bank wasn't the only secret down here after all.

↔ version 2 of 2 of this paragraph — hover its sides to flip. The card below is what happens next.

What happens next?

1 ways forward
Vote share across the top 1 branches
A possible continuation

Iyla pried open one metal case from the library. Inside were her father's notebooks, full of maps to dozens of hidden caches all along the drowned coast. He hadn't saved one thing. He'd been planning to save everyone. "This is bigger than us," she said. "We're going to need help. A lot of it."

BD
Bram de Vries
4 votes · future 1 of 1