THE FIRST ASSEMBLY

Ander Tzul has done this dive thirty-one times. On the thirty-second, he crosses a boundary no briefing prepared him for and returns to the surface changed in a way no instrument can confirm. Below the Blue Hole's chemical boundary, something has been assembling. Not life. Not yet. But something that holds its shape. Something that remembers what touches it. Scientist Azul Rivera-Smith has seen anomalies before. This is not an anomaly. This is a pattern. And it is appearing everywhere. Not spreading. Appearing. And it has just touched him. The story continues at SystemFictionPress.com