Drawn Lines

The two islands had long traded, sending goods and young people back and forth over the channel between them over the years.

But then the two islands were conqu.... liberated by two different empires, and a cold war broke out between them. And thus the lines between the two islands on the maps became important.

The residents ignored this, at first, until both groups were forc... Helped to move to the mainlands, and the islands became military bases.

Eventually, historians would rediscover the past relationship. Of course, one island clearly controlled the other, the one in the winning empire, naturally.