Phreatic Terror

Thaddeus Rigg is an expert geological surveyor whose sanctuary is the "Obsidian Expanse," a massive, completely open, and treeless active volcanic wasteland. His latest job seems routine: guide a wealthy tourist across the jagged, miles-wide open lava fields to photograph an active surface magma flow. But in the middle of the unforgiving, razor-sharp plain with no walls and absolutely nowhere to hide, the tourist draws a silenced pistol.

Thaddeus is left stranded and weaponless, discovering ...