She felt the desecration. Part of her was being taken away. The anger flares in the darkness and a small spark ignites a flame of vengeance. The anger grows. Fissures appear.
Pressure builds and begins pushing upward. The pressure pushes harder, moving rock and earth from its path. Heat builds as well, adding to the pressure, ready to ignite. Stone and minerals melt in the heat; forming pockets of molten rock and glowing magma. All creep ever upward.
The ground begins to shift and move aside. Tremors cause cracks in the Earth's crust and steam begins to vent into the outer surfaces. Large clouds form over the openings, bringing with it the stench of sulphur and other gases. The air becomes heated and noxious.
A low, ominous rumble, a slight quiver in the Earth's surface sends people scrambling for safety.
Pele is awake and very angry..........
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Okay. Good start! But you wanted a geo freaks help with the sci of the thing so here goes:
ReplyDeleteI am assuming that the discription of the rising magma is where you first bring in the word/image 'flame'. Uh, NO. This would be down deep under the volcano, right? And would put it several thousand feet below the seafloors surface. No flame. Heat? Yeah. Pressure?! OH MY YES!
The preasure would grow with the anger I would think as well as the heat.
Gasses would not even begin to appear until the magma got just below the opening (say several hundred feet rather than several thousand)because all that pressure would be keeping the gasses entraped in the magma until then. Once the pressure begain to lessen the gasses start to escape explosively and, yes, some of those gasses are flamible but are 'burnt' before they can reach the surface I think.
The real flames show up when the magma, now called lava, flows out and encounters something flamable like a tree, grass, a house, a car or a critter. (encluding any two legged beast that doesn't chirp or honk like a ne-ne if it doesn't get out of the way!)
Hope this helps. Volcano's are excelent metaphors for anger!! I used to draw them when I was pissed and could do nothing about the situation.
Oh, the word lake gives me the impression of a big cavern with a lake of magma in it. I don't think it happens like that. I might talk about the ever increacing volume of the magma but this is your story. Use lake if you think it works for your story.
All Right! Now that's the way to a geo freaks heart! More! Please! This version is greate!
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