Below

[DEBUT] In the distant future (or is it closer than it appears?), Earth has undergone a drastic geological transformation: in the sky, the islands of Above float over the clouds in a relentlessly bright, dry climate, and the realm of Below lies beneath on Earth's surface, under permanent cloud cover, the sun unknown to its people. Above and Below only interact during the funeral rites for the dead of Above, who are cast into the abyss, falling to the ground where the scavengers of Below search the corpses for treasure. That changes when Elia, an imperial servant girl of Above, stumbles onto clues to her family's mysterious past—and then literally stumbles over the island's edge. She survives by landing in the ocean of Below, where she meets Hokk, an outcast stunned to see a living being from Above. They work together to return to their homes in this thrilling first entry in Chabot's debut trilogy.