Shine a little light on me

The sky had lightened, just like that. Everyone that had been glowing wasn’t anymore (and of course she never got to glow), and Modesty’s itchy paws returned. She hadn’t spent much time in the North, so she thought she had best check it out while they were all still wandering. It wasn’t a pleasant smell that wafted from the cave entrance, but it intrigued her all the same. So with little thought for impending danger, she stepped forward, into the dark mouth of the cave and began her descent down, down, into the sulphurous hungry mouth of the earth, towards a distantly glowing red light and a radiating heat unlike any other she had felt before.

“Speech.”