This is Ronit Weiss reporting in for initial mission data entry before descent. Maw of the Ishta has been successfully located...
Allison Thai is a second-generation Vietnamese-American and the eldest child of Vietnam War refugees. By day she puts patients to sleep for surgery as an anesthetist, by night she moonlights as a devourer of words and video games and a dabbler in illustrating. Her short fiction can be found in Podcastle, Worlds of Possibility, and Anathema, among other places, and featured in Reactor and Locus recommended reading lists. A born and raised Texan, she currently lives and works in Colorado, where she enjoys Pikes Peak as her backyard view.