Short chapter today.
Chapter 35
After a short while I found where the woods ended and Lufk began. Lufk was, as advertised, a scorched land. Everything looked burnt and ravaged. And, oddly, the temperature suddenly rose ten degrees when I stepped away from the last scattering of trees.
I was coming to realize the cliff I had climbed as an intern was the edge of some vast plateau ... this made obvious in the fact that I now sow blasted land in every direction ahead of me as far as the horizon.
Oh boy. Let’s go.
I walked across the desert, and for a while it wasn’t so bad. The temperature was only a little higher than I would have liked, but I was okay.
My feet burned on the heated rock ... which was peculiar, because the sun had just set. What was making this place so hot?
It may have been eight thirty that night when the heat got to me. I was feeling very discouraged. How did I get myself into this?
As I pulled myself onward, I noticed that some things were giving off a wispy black smoke. I passed it off as some mind trick being played by my dehydration and overexposure to the heat.
Around ten I realized I hadn’t gotten anyone to accept the Flash power for the BigBro morph.
The heat was getting out of hand. Things that had started to simply smoke began to smolder, and little fires appeared on things like rocks and boulders. The heat had forced many rocks around here to crack and puff a sheet of dust around them.
My body had stopped sweating a half hour ago. I guess it couldn’t waste any more fluid.
I pushed on to my last extremity ... or as far as my legs were willing to carry me. I eventually collapsed onto the hard rock slab of ground I had walked across. It was probably past midnight, and the heat surpassed the hottest midday summer sun you could imagine ... and then some.
Ignoring the heat baking me on the ground, I struggled to breathe ... and waited for the end.
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