Suddenly, Eleanor felt an unbearable heat consume her entire body. In the next instant, she found herself standing inside a cave, already in her wolf form. She instinctively tried to revert to her human shape, but failed again and again. Frustrated, she turned her attention to the source of the scorching heat. One glance was enough to drain the colour from her face… a vast expanse of lava churned before her.
After examining her surroundings more carefully, she realised there was no exit except the path that led towards the molten flow. She padded forward to gauge the heat and recoiled in shock. With temperatures like these, even metal would melt in moments. The lava pool stretched for kilometres, its sheer scale making her lips twitch.
She searched the cave for any other way out, but there was none. Feeling helpless, she waited to see whether the trial would give her some form of instruction or guidance. Nothing appeared.
