The tunnel had gotten narrower, the closer Neveah got to the cavern entrance. It had gotten hotter too, a vast difference from the chills Neveah had adjusted to. Every breath Neveah took burned her throat, filled her lungs with sulfur and something heavier.
Stepping into the cavernous chamber, Neveah could finally understand the sudden change in temperature. From the walls to the ground, the entire expanse of the cavern was cracked in different directions, the cracks were more like veins of molten light, gleaming dangerously and with each tremor that shook the ground, they spread further. The veins originated from a large pool at the center of the cavern, an abyss where magma churned, licking at the edges of the pit in angry swells.
Neveah's heart sank to the pit of her stomach. 'The heart of the volcano... it's active again.'
Overhead the abyss, a bridge of jagged rock stretched to the center of the chamber and on that bridge stood Adrienne.
