THE TOWER BY THE SEA

And in the south there was a huge tower of light and of sorrow. It was where the giant White Dragon of ice was born. He was created out of a block of ice by the Wizard Mikletious. He found the ice in the middle of the ocean. All of the people around the tower lived in shacks and in small dugouts and they called themselves Moon People and they prayed their evening prayers to the moon. Well, this wizard found the ice in the middle of the ocean, it must have broken off of the Great Ice to the far far north and floated down to this area. The tower was called Furthithan Gilnahd which means Tower by the sea in the old language. The Wizard took the ice an made a dragon and it was White. The White Dragon it was called and it’s wings were 200 feet tip to tip. He kept it in the basement of the castle and one day he decided to tell the Moon People that he wanted them to build him a bridge to the moon. They grumbled but they thought it was a good idea, so they tried to do it. It was really impossible and they all thought that is was, but they built and built for three hundred years and twice in that time the bridge fell and there was much destruction and weeping and sorrow. There was a leader of the Moon People and he was called Reomammah and he got all of the people together and said “Lets stop working because it will fall on us again!” His father and his brother got squashed thirty years earlier so he was really angry and he was tired of working. So the Moon People revolted but the Wizard said “I will let the dragon out if you do not keep working.”
So the people kept on working for four hundred more years and the bridge was ten thousand feet high. And then they all revolted on the Summer Solstice eve and they raided the Tower and tried to break down the door. They could not but they did destroy the garden outside the Tower and all of the trees. The Wizard let the White Dragon out and he flew up and up and up and too high and he melted in the sun.
“Curses!” said the Wizard and for five days it rained the melted dragon down and the people danced in the rain and had a wonderful time and all the people sang songs and prayed loud and said, “We are now to be called the Sun People!” but this was short lived. The Wizard came out in a fury and he fought the people but there were just too many and they killed him eventually. They raided the tower and cleaned it out and then built a huge city called Bridge City and they built so many bridges and perfected the bridges and all the people called themselves Bridgemen, and they stopped praying to anything and they only worked trigonometry and statics and tried to make bigger and safer bridges.