Liquid Fire

Once again, it wasn't something that Fen could point out as the source of his worries. Rather than a concrete reason for him to worry about, the entire atmosphere of this place somehow seemed threatening.

'First, let's get what I came here for…'

There was no point to linger motionlessly in one place, waiting for some miracle to happen. Given how Fen was clueless about the reason for his guts going awry, there was absolutely no point in standing in place and trying to uncover it with the power of his mind alone. If the information he had on hand wasn't sufficient to bring an answer to this strange question he had, then no amount of straining his mind would do the trick.

Step by step, Fen inched closer to the small lake filled with that pristine liquid. And the closer he got to the puddle, the higher the temperature became… All the way to the point where it suddenly dropped down completely, bringing Fen's extended hand to the bring of freezing up! 

'Wha…'