Abyssal Tremors

"The base collapsed too?" Thalia had assumed last night's sinkhole was a fluke, a one-time event with no wider pattern.

She had her smartwatch out and the news pulled up before the sentence fully left her lips.

The footage was everywhere. Massive craters torn open in the earth, black mist rolling out of them in dense, churning waves, and enormous writhing shapes thrashing through the air. Against