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*The car jolts and lands with a huge thud, taking the landing well but seemingly not handling the inertia so well, skidding as it struggles to regain traction*

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C'mon, make iiiiit!
*Twists the wheel with the car's direction and lets go of the accelerator but doesn't hit the brake*

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*You manage to pull the car back on track after something under the hood lets out a lout clang, but nothing else gives you problems right away*

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We'll take it!
*Drives up the road, sporting a grin*

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*The lightning flashes nearby and thunder crackles, almost in a sort of explosive cosmic retort to your pride*

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*Mutters to myself*
Maybe the healing lightning above the healing lake will heal this car if it comes to that.

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*The air shimmers more intensely as though there were a heat wave present, though there clearly isn’t. Not terribly long into your drive, the cars stop at the end of the road where it seems people were swarming to get to the pools, and the calm expanse of what seems like entire lakes of vibrant, glowing pink water comes into view, though the water itself is filled with specks of sorts that aren’t discernible from here*

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*Grimaces when I notice the specs*
Awww man...

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*Sure enough, as you get closer and approach the end of the drivable road near the water’s edge, countless people can be seen turned face down in the springs, entirely unmoving*

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*Pauses to scribble in my notes "does not sustain life in inhospitable conditions or revive from the dead" and approaches the springs*

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*The radio on your ear begins to freak out much more frequently now as you approach closing distance to the water*

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*Flicks at it as I overlook the pools*

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*The sound of the interference begins to morph barely into what sounds like the deafening sound of a massive swarm of insects. As you get close enough to the shore to distinguish features of the people, the water very suddenly ripples and a small wave splashes over your feet from the water level rising rather suddenly*

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*Hops a few steps back, trying to ensure the water doesn't touch me*

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*The water across the expanse slowly grows still again, though the sound coming through the radio remains constant*

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...Eh, what's the worst that could happen.
*Hucks a rock into it*

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*Nothing happens*

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*Starts exploring the outskirts of the pools*

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*Nothing seems to stand out more than it did back near the road, though it would appear that some buildings farther along the shore turn out to be industrial sized pumps with pipes running into the water itself*

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*Places my hand to the ground and senses the energies around me, digging deep to find anything alive outside the overpowering energy noise of the pools*