The ground trembled as the sky darkened. A shrill hiss roared across the landscape. Clouds of grey smoke streamed out of the ground like a teakettle about to boil over. The pale blue glacier emerging from the snow-covered peak took on a pinkish hue as torrents of water sweated from the surface. The mountain was obliterated in an instant as molten rock and ash rained down.
On the plateau below a solitary Vicuña raised his head as partially chewed grass fell from his mouth. He could barely see the herd disappearing in the distance. Perhaps it was time for takeout.
(Photo credit: “Vicuña, one of two wild South American camelids. In the background the point on the Earth’s surface that is farthest from the Earth’s center, Chimborazo volcano – Ecuador.” Selected as the Picture of the Day, Wikimedia Commons on August 20, 2012; Photo by David Torres Costales (@DavoTC) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.)
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