Over the next couple of years, as the island of Tanna sailed the endless sea and carried Kal with it, Kal tried to learn of the tower. He didn’t, really, have much of a choice.Kal lived in the city that sprawled all around Port Cargo. It was called Jon Frum Town. Jon Frum was an ancient Tannese prophet, or rebel, or perhaps both. The transition from Kal’s village on Epi to life in the big city was an … education.At that time—the time of Kal’s journey to the tower and his yearning to fly—Port Cargo was busy with maritime traffic. The island of Tanna sailed the archipelago by its own power, drawing to it the trade of a hundred smaller islands. With trade came forged links. Sometimes people fell in love. Sometimes they married. Often, they stayed on. Jon Frum Town was a hub for the different people of Heven. Kal’s grandfather’s uncle’s second cousin (on his mother’s side), for instance, had indeed come to Port Cargo at a time when Tanna and Epi passed each other, had fallen in love, and had married a Tannese man.
