By “Missing,” Lamont means, “Suspended in the mechanical womb of ancient Mars,” where Amila followed the severed head of Phobos, with whom she shared a complex past. Last time we saw her, she was still there, albeit communicating with Benjamin Schultz using a sophisticated hologram.

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