The southern coast of the Vel'kai planet was gone.
Not damaged. Not scarred the way battlefields were scarred, craters and burn marks and the kind of destruction that time and rain eventually smoothed over. Gone, a two hundred meter circle of coastline simply absent, the alien ocean having rushed in to fill it the moment it appeared, and now there was just water where the ruins had been, dark and calm, as if the sea had always extended that far and the land had been the temporary thing.
The chasms were worse further inland.
