Swept Away: Act I: The Castaway Scholar

Tears is an archipelago surrounded by the Endless--an ocean that goes on forever. At least so legend says. A young scholar spends his mornings diving and evenings working frantically on his flying machine whilst overhead the smoking peak of the island looms. When his first test flight succeeds he is ecstatic, certain he has found a way to save his people from their Fate. But that hope turns to ash when the mountain explodes, shaking his dreams to pieces and entombing everyone he loves beneath an avalanche of magma. Huddled in his balloon and flung over the ocean he is...
Swept Away.