"I mean," I shift my chair toward Leal, "the girl walked through this camera view and doesn't show up in that one."
"She disappeared?"
"No," I look away for a second, "there's nowhere to go. People can't disappear."
Leal rewinds the footage and we watch it another time.
"She's gone," I whisper.
In the first book of the Alaster Trilogy, A. H. Ostmo shapes an underwater world that explores belief systems and challenges worldviews. With microbial-based systems and energy from hydrothermal vents, the Trellis facility is located in one of the most extreme environments in the universe. No sunlight, shadowy creatures, and more pressure than a human can withstand-- what better setting to examine the internal conflicts of the human mind?