As the waves and wind pushed their iceberg onto its side, the child froze, unsure what to do or even what they could do. They stayed still as the storm pushed them even shallower before they became stuck.

They stayed this way until the storm slowly started to pass by them.

Once the child felt the storm slow down, they shook themselves out of their shock and quickly took stock of their first floor and every other room and space within the iceberg. The way the iceberg tipped over was onto the side where they built the bird room. It also left the entrance of their dungeon entirely out of the water and facing the sky.

Their first floor was banged up and tilted sideways, which was a problem. A good portion of the pressurized ice pebbles dropped into the third and fourth rooms. With the loss of the pebbles, most of the seaweed either became unattached and ripped apart or damaged by the falling pebbles. The child did lose a certain percentage of the more common creatures. Still, they were lucky not to have any of their ice coral, sea lily, grey tassel and striped goby killed during the storm.

The child carefully reordered the plants in the rooms to keep everything alive and somewhat happy before they checked all the other spaces and rooms that held a living being within. The first room they checked was the sharp bills, which Ivory stayed in.

The birds looked a bit harassed and were fluffing their feathers like they were annoyed. Still, they did not sustain any damage, so the child started carving out a tunnel to the outside. The storm was almost gone by this point, so they thought that it would be safe to release them.

The tunnel was a bit longer than the one they originally built, but the sharp bills quickly wobbled out of the room and started exploring the new area where their territory now inhabited.

They then turned their attention to the caverns that were originally underneath the iceberg, where all of the krill and snails that wandered their territory’s outside areas were stored. Unlike with the dungeon, the creatures in the caverns were completely fine, if a bit stressed.

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The child then looked at the room where the plants were growing in, and boy, were they surprised at what they found.

The whole room was upturned. Plants ripped out of the soil and were mixed around together, but one of the seeds that hadn’t grown yet and originally did not feel any life within them started to grow. It seems that when the iceberg tipped over, the water in the room drenched the seed. With the seed being soaked in the water, it somehow activated the life within the seed and allowed it to sprout. It was a flowing plant with long white droopy petals with little antennas coming out of the centre of the flower.

In order to keep the flower safe, the child made two cuttings from the plant, and they used the tunnel into the first floor but extended it to the portal room. Once the tunnel was ready, they carefully pulled the flower through the tunnel and into the first floor onto one of the little ledges where the trumpet vines grew. They closed the tunnel and began looking at where they ended up.

As the child looked at their new surroundings, they realized that they were in a very different environment than when they were floating around with the other icebergs.

They were currently stuck on their side in what appeared to be a layer of sand and stones in five metres of water. The sand was a beige colour, and the rocks were a grey-brown colour of various sizes. The bottom of the ocean continued to incline the closer they got to the islands.

The area that they were stuck in was between two islands, the first island was about 20 metres away from the edge of their territory, and the second island was 30 metres away. From what they could see, the island’s edges were a mix of water and soil, with tall plants growing everywhere. They didn’t know how large the islands were, but from what they could see, they estimated that the first island was about half a kilometre wide and the second almost a kilometre. It was hard to tell, but the islands were the largest thing they had encountered. Even the most giant icebergs flowing in the current were not close to being a kilometre long.

As they looked around, they spotted three other islands that seemed to have the same habitat and were around half a kilometre to a kilometre wide from what they saw. Of course, they could be completely wrong, and the islands extend much further than what they can see. It just meant that they would need to explore the islands somehow to see.

Within the interior of the islands, they could see large plants, reaching even higher than their iceberg when it is not tipped over. The tall plants were brown with green leaves growing on top of it. As the island got closer to the water, there were fewer tall plants, and the tall plants that lived closer to the water differed from those in the centre of the island.

The environment of the islands changed the closer it was to the water. The edges of the islands that they could see were submerged with a type of woody plant with long, slender leaves populating this environment.

Around the five islands was a similar ocean environment that they had encountered before, but it had a lot more creatures and plants than they had ever seen while they were floating around in the current.

As they took in these new environments, with new possibilities, the child became excited at what they could do and gain while stuck in the sand and rocks.

But first, they knew they had to un-tilt themselves and get everything back in order before they tried anything.