Redhawk Caldera haunted

"Fuck no," he answered quickly. "I mean... shit no," he ammended himself, remembering that she was a child with delicate ears. It completely escaped him that his language correction was hardly an improvement over the original statement. 

"The way I see it, this place exploded. Boom! And that's why there's this huge-ass hole." Dash tilted his muzzle to direct the kid's attention to the sloped outer edge of the bowl. "All this around the edge, it's new growth. So there must have been fire everywhere."  Especially when taking into account the ancient forests that surrounded the caldera, the vegetation here was comparably quite young. Dash had heard stories of mountains that intermittently erupted into rivers of liquid fire, but he had never seen anything like it himself. What a sight that would have been.

"Like hell I would want to live in a place that explodes randomly," he added after a short lapse of silence, belatedly remembering to finish answering her question.