The Vanishing People
The Vanishing People begin
The Vanishing People series is made up of standalone stories, but they follow a rough timeline in the following order:
Andrei and Eva Plot a Revolution
The legends were handed down through generations, whispered into ears on deathbeds, in stories told next to fireplaces. As more time passed, they were spoken on the swings of porches and bragged about at family picnics next to rocky entrances to the caves.
They said the Vanishing People appeared from out of the rock one day, their troll-like faces, their fish-eyed children were granted passage by the Indigenous peoples, who had walked the territory since before time itself.
The Vanishing People’s time was brief, about 100 years, then, blip, they vanished, as though they stepped back into the clefts from which they came.
They left behind elaborate maps of mountains, canyons, bogs and the pathways through them, which form the routes still used by modern highways today.
They also left renderings in the subterranean vents of the Rift with more than an accidental likeness to the awe-inspiring Eye of Ra.
Experts disagree on whether they are true representations of the Egyptian deity, or a coincidental likeness.