OST: https://youtu.be/cPWBG6_jn4Y?si=xzgziKnWJzA1atiD
It takes until a ways past noon before you start to get close enough to really, really notice. The edges of the cloud, the one pointed out by the old man from the ground. Everything appears to be rather typical, and you rise higher. And higher. And higher… Only to watch the cloud layer be overtaken by swathes of green and yellow. Rolling fields traverse the landscape—or skyscape?—spattered with what appears to be small villages here and there. In the middle, the base of a massive tree is almost hard to look at, with the way it catches light and reflects it back at you. You don’t get a chance to see it any clearer, blinding flashes of light leaving dark spots on your vision temporarily.
“I see it!” The old man shouts, nearly leaning out the side of the balloon in excitement. “It’s— Truly, my eyes aren’t deceiving me, are they?”
Ezekiel dares to wobble to his feet, looking out with wide eyes at the unknown isle before them. Can you even call it an island when it’s in the sky..? “Goddes-ss above…”
was just posted in map, but for visuals’ sake

Hey. What’s that thing in the sky on the map.
don’t even worry about it
This is gonna be so good for his pirate adventure stories.
Beaming with a grin full of teeth.
“Get closer get closerrrr!”
The old man and Robin will absolutely be doing that, guiding the balloon towards the island and lowering it slowly but surely.