Cherise glanced askance at him, also looking bewildered.
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Cerasma tubes formed a perimeter just inside the ring of volcanoes. Made of the same heat-impervious ceramic for which Vulpecula Salacia was famous, the cerasma tubes carried ferries full tourists to and around the volcanoes, the four-hundred mile tour itself taking an entire day, at minimum. Side tours at the largest volcanos might themselves take an entire day, spider webs of smaller, walking tubes catacombing the three largest volcanoes among the twenty-five that ringed this northern cape.
Jack followed one plume, tracing it from its caldera, where the ejecta column launched into the sky, where it plateaued and began to spread, then narrowed again as it turned white, as though cooling somewhat, then formed a tail which dr
