Matt, Liz, and Aster spent the next few days trying to follow up on whatever leads they had been looking into before the latest capture.
No one turned up anything useful besides the mist that Aster had noticed in the video. With that as their only lead, they decided to look into anyone on the planet with water skills.
When they saw the sheer volume of possible suspects, they were tempted to just give up. But given the severity of the situation, they gritted their teeth and started the slog; there were thousands of results in the capital city alone. When the results were expanded to the entire planet, that target population skyrocketed to the hundreds of thousands. With that many results, they could do little more than rely on their AI to sort through the information.
Even then, there wa
