Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“Officially Atlantis is just the center island, there’s aboutthree hundred thousand there, it is the densest population onEarth until 20 th century Mumbai. The inner caldera islandshold another million and there’s another half million onSantorini.”“What is it in your day.”“Ours is a dead branch, because Thera did explode in reallife, no more souls revived on the island, but we have hadsignificant immigration, like me, so that the archipelago hasfour and a half million residents in the 2341ad echo, the mostrecent.”She recognized that as the year she started playing inAlan’s Kassidor Yakhan with his wizard cherubs, the yearbefore Thom started playing Herndon with her. That had onlybeen a diversion, but it had been a fun time in her life and theHerndon personification and the culture of Kassidor Yakhanhad gotten Thom out of his stuffiness for a good many years.“How do dead branches in time form?” Ava asked her.“From the given that heaven must be perfect. To thosewho were living in heaven’s copy of Atlantis at the time,heaven would not be perfect if the island they were living onexploded, therefore, for them, it did not. Most who died in theexplosion, and there were hundreds on the densely populatedinner islands, the ones that are now gone, chose to live in theheavenly copy of Atlantis that did not explode.“Many of us who lived in the later days of the Minoancivilization, especially those of us who watched the472