Emberflame Ridge no storms but all the friction

Combat for some Merc. progression :) @Grezig

     If ever there could be a more apposite site for the coming compilation of events, Emberflame Ridge would undoubtedly arise the unanimous candidate.

     The Ridge, heavily maned in thriving pines and evergreens, slopes generously to the undulating expanse of the Taiga adjacant. Nestled within this magnificent cloak of conifers, various blotches dot the field - clearings garnered from the fury of the nieghboring Thunder Dome volcano. 

     Embry knew when he entered the Sunspire Mountains that something important would take place here. Upon his journey southward, he had been careful in selecting locations apt in satiating an explorer's appetite. Indeed, this particular panoramic was more than satisfying:

     The golden-blonde male had selected for himself one of the Ridge's many charred splotches; a clearing fallen victim to the wrath of volcanic ash and spew. Granted, it was a small area in which many of the trees still struggled to recover. It appeared to have been of the more recent locations affected, as compared to the few he'd passed before. However, what had truly caught his eye was the gap in trees that left him in a position he'd always thought himself too clever to allow: distracted.

     The boy's sea-green orbs laced the horizon with the naivety of a child; oblivious to the approaching encounter.