The spacecraft passed through the water curtain, coming out in the back of Hagrid Island. Below us a boundless paddy field stretched into the horizon, its golden rice plants swaying along with the sea breeze. The waterfall’s current slowed here as it poured down over terrace after terrace. Water descended through the layered pools, converging in the lake at the bottom.

The lake and the pools fanned out like an array of varying-sized mirrors under the sun, embellishing the island and the mountain cliffs as they shimmered.

“Wow...” Xing Ya seemed to only know how to say ‘wow’. She had obviously never been on a spacecraft, let alone driving one.

As the spacecraft began to climb in height, its huge shadow covered the paddy field below. The people of Hagrid Island busy working in the...