The people who came by boat and fight amongst themselves think foolishly that the ocean rises and falls, but they have never been a people that see what is actually there to be seen. The islands are but baby dragons sleeping and when they breath, the trees and houses move up and down and the water at its edge just sits lapping at a moving shore of ancient dragon skin covered with the dust and mold one gathers when having slept for thousands of years. They were getting tired and slow long, long ago, and as the weight and irritation of more and more people and animals had gathered it forced them to slow down even further which required more meditative sleep than they used to. The times when they almost completely had this planet to themselves they would only sleep when it got cold under their thick white blanket of ice. When they weren’t sleeping back in the active days they spent eons gone amongst the stars flying around and delivering messages and stories amongst all the different stars and their peoples. When they returned to stay they would always find the exact spot and curl up in the exact position every time. These large dragons of the most ancient race get larger and larger during the early stage of their life. But once they begin to get sleepy and stay asleep they also begin to shrink in size until they are just lizards or sturgeon or eels, and have shed enough weight to move about again, sadly without their wings in this final stage of their life. The mother dragons that we haven’t spoken of, they all lie in a large jumbled pile with eachother overlapping limbs and heads and wings. Their babies lying all around the edges of the slumbering pile. The adults are moody even in their sleep and they rustle about at times, growling and belching out fire in their sleep. At times they have sad and dynamic, universal dragon dreams and they cry incessantly without knowing, and flood the land. They breath as well and we know that as the wind. They sleep much deeper when the cyclical white blanket comes and move about much less and dream much less. The personality of each dragon is seen in the different plants and animals which crawl about on the living skin. The underlying temperament of each unique dragon can be seen with the uniqueness of all the different types of weather and seasons from one region to the next. Even the people and animals living in an area are deeply influenced by the sleeping dreams and past personality of each wondrous dragon buried beneath their feet or hooves.