Firestone Hot Springs go down to the gallows at midnight

Every once in a while, Maia went out. And sometimes, she didn't return the night of.  Tonight was one of those nights, as she had picked a random direction and taken it, unaware that it was actually near the same trajectory taken in her approach of the mountain.

That time, though, she'd missed the hot springs.  It was the wierd smell that first made her pause, and she wrinkled her nose at the unpleasantness. It almost made her turn around.... but curiosity kept her going.

Thank goodness, because this place was cool.  Not literally of course, the opposite there, but in a sense of unlike anything she'd ever seen, wow.  She skirted one of the boundary pools, staring at the water that bubbled forth.  She fought the temptation for about a millisecond before reaching out a paw to touch it, then drawing it back with a high yelp as the water scalded her.  Holy shiznit that was hot!