The Children of the Island

the long version

Homecoming. Now once again, after so many centuries, they stood upon the island. Manhattan Island. The place which, before the buildings had been put up to cut the sky apart and before the subways sliced through the earth, had been the place of their birth. The place where they had first sprung up. The place that had nourished them, and given them pleasure, before men had found them and driven them away. But they had survived. Survived to this moment. And now they had returned to reclaim the island that had given them the strength of life and the power of death...and soon every man, woman and child on the island would know it.