The pool was 40 feet in diameter. The edges were lined with metal of a sort that was unknown to the people and thus they thought that it was natural. The surface was black with oil and thick as butter. Nothing had ever been able to stay on the surface, no boat, or even a balloon, everything sank. After a while people stopped trying to get to the middle of the pool. Instead they started putting objects of devotion into it. You could hire a priest from the church beside the water to say a prayer as you threw your object in. There was even a proposition from a funeral business to have your body deposited here after death but no one had yet been so brave.

She had taken one step into the pool and disappeared, never to be seen again. They thought that she had committed suicide.

Now people have started to say that the image they're seeing is her. The woman called Tarah who drowned herself in the pool. That really she floats just below the surface and comes up at night to breathe.