"Could be? The ocean isn't so simple as one or the other, more how you look at it." She shakes her head. "It could be the Buried, the Dark, the Stranger, maybe, for some of the creatures. There were mermaids that seemed like they might be part of the Extinction we dealt with not long ago. But the Vast could be. It makes you feel so tiny sometimes.

"But it makes sense, yes. I don't... I'm not sure, though. If he is something that old and terrible, I don't know how we'd find out. He didn't become a client for ADI until a decade or so ago. So... he might have been influencing in other ways?"