A great crashing roar reverberated beneath her feet before she could even take in the splendor of the surrounds. Her pupils dilated in fear, and she whispered, attempting to find out where the sounds was coming from.
"What is that?"
The sounds became more intense, with the loudest quake causing even the earth to tremble.
In the face of such a calamitous incident, Aletha reacted by sprinting as fast as she could, not even pausing to breathe. As Aletha strolled along the edges of the spouting geysers, the golden beams of the sun blinded her eyes.
Sure, the water was shallow, but even that presented a problem to her.
Nonetheless, as long as she kept up her pace, she would eventually catch up to the deer-antlered bull.
. . .
Only ten seconds later...
"I can't keep running after it like this!" Aletha moaned with a glob of warm sweat trickling down her brow. "It's too hot."
The stress of the chase overwhelmed her confidence, forcing her to decelerate dramatically.
