I'm not a woman, I'm a god
Fleet-footed
09-10-2021, 02:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-10-2021, 02:43 PM by Kiela. Edited 2 times in total.)
The smell of sulfur was unmistakable, long before she ventured deeper into this cavern. It was faint at first, hardly distinguishable from the mustiness that was ever-present in these underground caverns - but with each step it grew more powerful and undeniable. It was a smell like nothing she'd ever encountered before and, ever-curious, Kiela found herself trekking deeper into the cave. Initially it seemed like any other cave, only significantly smellier and… oddly, warmer. Winter had arrived in Boreas, and though the weather was nothing noteworthy it was still a chilly afternoon, but she swore the ground beneath her paws was growing warmer with each step. Definitely strange and worth investigating, though she didn't plan to stay long. She had no intention of sleeping down here and she'd do everything in her power to make it back to the surface before evening fell. She wasn't sure how many tunnels she'd taken, but she'd mapped out her route carefully so that getting back safely was guaranteed. As she took a different path though she noted that there was light from up ahead, which seemed an impossibility, given that she was steadily going deeper and deeper into the earth? But it was there and only grew with each step she took. By now the heat was palpable, not something she couldn't mistake as a figment of her imagination - these strange lands were suddenly proven even stranger as she tried to take in the sight in front of her. The narrow cavern opened up into a wide room, and rows of molten lava poured down from the ceiling and poured down into the darkness below. A single step into the wide expanse proved uncomfortable right away; the heat that had flooded the cavern was even stronger here, no doubt a result of the fiery liquid that poured from somewhere unknown. Keeping her distance and panting softly from the heat that had slowly overtaken her, Kiela tried to get a good look around the room. This was nothing at all like she'd ever seen before, and she decided this was no doubt a sacred place - she was lucky just to encounter it at all, let alone have any semblance of understanding of what it might be. |
