Kilauea Crater

Blocking the sun and providing the only shade for miles is a hump of ai'ai, lava from one of Kilauea's more recent eruptions. The shade it provides is hardly comforting though. Not far below our feet boils liquid rock making the thin crust protecting us warm to the touch. I see a humanoid shape in this rock, an elemental beast trying in vain to free itself from the surrounding earth, bitter in defeat, and fiercely crying up to the taunting heavens.