Ana Salinas - Adventure

It began, as most disasters do, with a committee meeting. Dr. Hugo Grimsworth, head geologist and self-proclaimed “volcano whisperer,” had just concluded a fifteen-minute monologue about tectonic grace when the volcano decided to speak for itself by exploding. The research base Vulcanis Alpha was nestled inside Mount Furore, a crater so vast and temperamental it could be mistaken for an angry god with indigestion. The team had been there for twelve days, which was precisely eleven days too lo