The notion of a campfire

One draws you to it, the notion of a campfire, that crackling energy, the safe coziness, the implied social shared experience.

"Right! Interestin' choice. Off ye go now!"

You suddenly lurch and sensations come flooding back to you.

You are rising, warm, hot, wrapped in an embrace. You feel the rush of an fast approaching surface.

You breach and gasp air.

You have just emerged from a lake of lava, which to you, feels like the best jacuzzi. The sky above is dotted with stars and that you are in a active caldera.

You clamber to "shore" which is more of a crust.