Drift

The world did not end in fire.It drowned. After the seas rose and the continents broke, humanity scattered across rafts, islands, and the remnants of a world that no longer exists. Trade routes shift. Currents lie. Knowledge is hoarded, lost, or worshipped. Survival is work.Caelum is a scout - one of the few who still reads the ocean well enough to leave and return. His days are measured in salt, wind, and careful decisions that keep his people alive. When he pulls a drifting raft from the water—its occupant barely clinging to life - he inherits more than a rescue.Fragments of routes. Half-truths. A name whispered too often to be coincidence. There are no chosen ones here. No prophecies. Only risk, responsibility, and the cost of moving forward when staying still means death.This is a grounded post-apocalyptic survival story focused on realism, slow discovery, flawed people, and a world that does not care who lives or dies.