Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature …
From chapter 4: Immersion "What did the thing coming after you look like?" A coughing fit, words dribbling out around the edges: "I never saw it. It was never there. Or I saw it too many times. It was inside me. Inside you. I was trying to get away. From what's inside me."
— Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Page 126)