The East Bordzvek basin is known thruout Kassidor as a place of certain death. It is too hot for human life, the ground is too rugged and broken to traverse, but most of all, the wildlife is too deadly for even the most heavily armed expeditions to survive. Only the fringes of the basin had been seen, other than that, unmanned balloons and orbital vehicles were the only things that had ever seen it.
Honshu is falling back into her loon addiction, uninterested in anything else of life, but without enough of a supply to last until more can be procured. Only an intensive rehabilitation campaign can save her from it at this point. Dorrick is sure it is the loss of the Wild World video feed that was making her give up on life, but the only way to save that show is to film in the East Basin.
TongSu is tired of sharing Dorrick with Honshu, especially now that Honshu is claiming more and more of his attention as she sinks deeper into the clutches of the drug. She knows it is suicide to go to the East Basin, but hopes it will end the problems with Honshu once and for all. All she has to do is find a way to keep them all alive.
Dorrick convinced himself this expedition was all about bringing Honshu back to life. He wouldn't admit to himself that his own boredom might have had something to do with it. Even more, he couldn't face the fact that Honshu was sure she had nothing more to gain from life and was using this expedition as a means to insure her own demise. She made sure she would die by using up her supply of loon when she knew that withdrawal would kill her when it ran out. Dorrick's guilt because he believed that he had caused her to do this was crushing.
In their most difficult and dangerous adventure to date, the three of them must face unending attacks from the deadly creatures out of Hell time and time again. At the same time they must face their own internal demons, and an unknown group of people out of these steaming jungles who's agenda might not be the same as their own.
