Twelve Days of Christmas: #1

 

On the first day of Christmas, my stories gave to me....

a blue crab in a scrap tree.

Okayyy looks like we're kicking off the Days of Christmas for my stories with GANTON!!!

I realized I have said next to nOtHiNg about Ganton, so lemme explain that a little real quick. Some time ago, one of my older sisters and I started a roleplay game of sorts that we called Fathor the Factor. There were a few different planets called the "factors", and each one centered around a different machine. Ganton is my planet, and it is a complete water planet. Everyone lives in submarines and works on boats.

SO obviously there isn't anywhere to grow trees. And it is pRiCy to import several thousand trees when that money could be spent on food. So they make "scrap trees."

Basically the kids dive around and find some piece of scrap material underwater/on the beach/etc. and they put it on a stand. Then they either pull up lots of kelp or use longs scarves or other such fabric to cover up the pole.

My main character, Karen Tombro, is scared to dEaTh of kelp unless she eats it. Her family tends to do a scarf.

And the blue crab... that's their tree topper. it's dead. But it's fun to dive for without getting your fingers pinched off.