Porous Untethered floats above the other lands. In heavy rains, it soaks and sinks. In warm weather, it dries and rises. The Untethered explore and mine the land holes. Sometimes children, animals, drunkards, and incautious people fall through them into other lands. Some land safely in water, others…
Some of the holes are wells filled with wholesome water or interesting fishes. Visitors come by airship or hot air balloon. The Untethered love to fly balloons of all sizes.
“The Untethered are flight people, jolly but silly. They say so themselves!” says Miss Emeline.
“I’m not sure other lands would accept us,” says Miss Heart. “Besides, once one learns to balloon and navigate around the holes, life here is not half bad.”
Distracted lies deep in the bottom of a hole in Untethered. Farmland around Distracted supplies the city. Smaller wellsprings support the population. Distracted has half built roads and buildings. The city plans were not completed. Everyone has an equal vote in Distracted’s charter, but the leaders forget to hold the elections and referendums and everyone goes about their day-to-day business anyway. “It doesn’t make much sense to go back and vote now,” says Jerry Jr.
The Untethered fall into Distracted. Their air balloons sink into it by accident and they stay in Distracted forgetting that they were once trying to get out.
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