Echo's voice was thoughtful when she said it. She'd been braced for hostility from Daniel, but when it didn't come she relaxed another notch and crouched down near the blackened earth. It was much warmer there, like a banked campfire, and her angular features were thrown into sharp relief by the glow.
"Maybe it's hollow," she suggested, speaking to the group in general. "Part of the tail end of a comet or something. Comets don't usually make stuff catch fire, though." The hybrid had the vague urge to poke it with a stick, but there were none nearby. She looked up at the sky. Stars twinkled down. They were a lot easier to look at than the glowing ball embedded in the bottom of the crater.
Re: Look Out Below
Echo's voice was thoughtful when she said it. She'd been braced for hostility from Daniel, but when it didn't come she relaxed another notch and crouched down near the blackened earth. It was much warmer there, like a banked campfire, and her angular features were thrown into sharp relief by the glow.
"Maybe it's hollow," she suggested, speaking to the group in general. "Part of the tail end of a comet or something. Comets don't usually make stuff catch fire, though." The hybrid had the vague urge to poke it with a stick, but there were none nearby. She looked up at the sky. Stars twinkled down. They were a lot easier to look at than the glowing ball embedded in the bottom of the crater.