Too cute for my toes

After suffering through the chilling winds and icy snows of the North, she couldn’t keep herself from ducking into the first cavern that she found. Stamping snow off her paws, and shaking it from her starry-coat, she began to look about herself. It was immediately warmer here, and it wasn’t just the break from the wind. There was a steady heat blowing upwards from the downward incline. Not one to look a heat-horse in the mouth, she began to follow the path downwards.

It wasn’t long before it became less warm, and more hot. she could feel it biting at her coat, and the sudden change from freezing to overheating put a cough in her mouth. She tried to clear it from her mouth, and made her way forward to the indent in the path before her. Thinking she would find water, and instead finding a river of heat. She stared in open mouthed wonder at the reddish liquid flowing lightly down the cavern. She started, and stared, and then took a few steps back. No, it was entirely too warm. Perhaps she could take advantage of the heat from a little further away.

Spice stuck her head out of Keetie’s coat, and let out an inquisitive chirp. “It’s a river of heat Spi. I guess it must be what lava looks like.” she began to backtrack the way she had come. Her paws were far too cute to risk getting blisters.

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