La Garita Caldera reawakens

Previously

…Brody, his eyes burning, squinted through the windshield, the wipers doing little more than smearing the gritty particles. He tried his radio, the static a mocking hiss. "Anyone out there? Anyone copy?" Only silence. He was alone, blind, and surrounded by a force that felt both elemental and malevolent. The ‘Ignimbrite Flare’ was no longer a geological curiosity; it was a living, breathing entity, and it had just begun its devastating embrace of the land. The shadow of the ash was not just a loss of light; it was the descent into a primal fear, the realization that the very ground beneath their feet was a volatile, sleeping dragon, now wide awake and breathing fire.