The heat of the volcano was already noticeable from a considerable distance, the air carrying the smell of sulfur mixed with the rocky dust that covered the whole region around the base of the mountain.
Thin streams of distant lava glowed between the higher fissures of the mountain itself, tinting the sky around it with a soft orange tone that stood out against the dark, uneven rock of the terrain.
The sight of a volcano like that was beautiful, completely different from the volcanoes of Lohan's previous world, where either the scene looked no different from an ordinary mountain, or it was a total cataclysm of the volcano erupting.
Lisa slowed her own pace as they got closer, her sharpened senses picking up human voices echoing from somewhere just ahead, hidden among a cluster of uneven volcanic rocks.
She raised a paw, signaling to Lohan that she'd noticed something, and the two of them started advancing more cautiously across the rough terrain.
