Prologue

The world had been swallowed by the sea leaving only the fewest places with fresh water and dry land. The few dry land areas, manmade or natural, were ruled by a tyrant by the name of Kale Night.

When the world flooded Night was the first person to try to take power, there were others of course, but Night quickly disposed of them and anyone else who didn't fit his perfect picture. Only a few people weren't locked away and I was one of them. When people were first being taken away Miroku was put on the list.

At the time Miroku, Sango, and I were all roommates in a housing unit; we were all friends before the flood and refused to let them take Miroku, so when they came for him we hid him under the floor boards and told them that he had taken off days ago. Since we were on the safe list they had no reason not to trust us.

Then the mass abductions started to take place, all the people of any sort of power was being taken away and either killed or locked up. The police were the first to go, they were replaced by the Water-Runners, the politicians were all taken and killed, they even took away the people in the fire department and military. Only a handful of us weren't taken for one reason or another. If you were on the safe list you didn't ask why.

There are thirty man made islands on the world and only three actual islands that survived the flood. Out of the thirty manmade islands twenty of them are used to house the so called outlaws. Each manmade island holds between fifty and a hundred people. There is a market, dining hall, bathing buildings, sleep or housing units, and work areas.

There's no such thing as women's bathrooms and men's bathrooms, all bathrooms are for both sexes, you never go alone. There is no doctor either, if you are in need of one you have to go to one of the three medical islands that are separated through the world. The rooms that the people were given are shady at best, between three and six people are shoved and crammed into small three bedroom apartments, you rarely got to sleep alone. But we were all happy.