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A field researcher on an alien planet falls through the floor into a lake, which was hidden under a thick mat of floating vegetation. Her two fellow researchers, still standing on unstable ground, are utterly baffled at this unexpected discovery.

EDIT: Thought it would be best to actually include the relevant story excerpt, which I've been doing for more recent Odyssey illustrations.
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Hidden Depths

Today I stumbled into a wild discovery. I mean that in the literal sense of the word – we were headed for the swamps to the northeast when the ground gave way beneath my feet. And no, my feet didn’t just sink into the mud. I actually fell through several meters of water that had somehow been hiding under our boots all this time. Alex has some fancy theory about a mat of floating vegetation sustained by ammonia-rich upwellings at the bottom of the lake. Oh, did I mention? The “swamp” was really a lake, and the mat could only hold for so long. I gained the privilege of being the world’s first scuba diver on an extrasolar planet. Aren’t you jealous?

And it was pitch black down there! All I could see was some faint light swimming around the hole I fell through, and a smattering of light beams peeking through the rest of the mat. With no signal from the guys above, and something large and terrifyingly shark-like swimming too close for comfort, I needed badly to swim back to sanity. But nope! It wouldn’t be that easy. You see, those air canisters we’ve been lugging around are heavy, and mine was weighing me down.

Riddle me this: what’s the first thing you would do if you were stuck underwater, with a good three hours of oxygen left in your tank? If you said, “unhook yourself from your air supply immediately,” then congratulations, you are as insane as I am.

But hey, can’t argue with results, right?

- Erin Carellos (Day 6)
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See also: [link]

Like [link] , it's a digital painting of an existing work of mine - in this case, a watercolor. Unlike that one, it's actually an improvement on the original.

Description
A field researcher on an alien planet falls through the floor into a lake, which was hidden under a thick mat of floating vegetation. Her two fellow researchers, still standing on unstable ground, are utterly baffled at this unexpected discovery.

EDIT: Thought it would be best to actually include the relevant story excerpt, which I've been doing for more recent Odyssey illustrations.
___________________________________________
Hidden Depths

Today I stumbled into a wild discovery. I mean that in the literal sense of the word – we were headed for the swamps to the northeast when the ground gave way beneath my feet. And no, my feet didn’t just sink into the mud. I actually fell through several meters of water that had somehow been hiding under our boots all this time. Alex has some fancy theory about a mat of floating vegetation sustained by ammonia-rich upwellings at the bottom of the lake. Oh, did I mention? The “swamp” was really a lake, and the mat could only hold for so long. I gained the privilege of being the world’s first scuba diver on an extrasolar planet. Aren’t you jealous?

And it was pitch black down there! All I could see was some faint light swimming around the hole I fell through, and a smattering of light beams peeking through the rest of the mat. With no signal from the guys above, and something large and terrifyingly shark-like swimming too close for comfort, I needed badly to swim back to sanity. But nope! It wouldn’t be that easy. You see, those air canisters we’ve been lugging around are heavy, and mine was weighing me down.

Riddle me this: what’s the first thing you would do if you were stuck underwater, with a good three hours of oxygen left in your tank? If you said, “unhook yourself from your air supply immediately,” then congratulations, you are as insane as I am.

But hey, can’t argue with results, right?

- Erin Carellos (Day 6)
__________________________________

See also: [link]

Like [link] , it's a digital painting of an existing work of mine - in this case, a watercolor. Unlike that one, it's actually an improvement on the original.