"I agree. And it wouldn't just leave back up into the sky, it would come looking for us." Probably, right? Who can say how a World Eater thinks. It's almost a shame they never got to really understand, but doing so would have been far too dangerous.

"Wonder if anyone else saw," he says, as he takes his tablet in hand. "Anyone at Helix was supposed to be watching, maybe they know."

But he stops short of actually looking at the screen. He's holding it, but his eyes are still glued on the lake and its lapping waves of lit water, daring for something to move out in the darkness.