^Plains^

^Sparse Forest^

^Dense Forest^

^Water/Streams^

The smallest circle is the top of the bulge. It's relatively flat, and about seventy feet in diameter. The second circle represents the part where the bulge begins. It's almost perfectly vertical and about one hundred feet high. The holes to get inside the caves inside the bulge are located on this almost-vertical side, where the streams are flowing from. The largest circle is the roots of the dead volcano itself.

How did such a weird bulge get there? As I mentioned, this was a volcano (though usually referred to as just a mountain) until it blew itself out. It had been latent for many years, actually suffering from a severe block, and finally exploded straight up. At this time it was in the middle of a horribly cold winter, with great winds and lots of snow. Now, though the lava had been held down for a long time, it was not terribly hot, and the snow was enough to shock the outside of it to hardening as it bubbled higher and higher until finally spent. So this strange pillar of rock was formed, and eventually hardened all the way through. Of course there were spaces in the stone, into which water crept, freezing and melting with the seasons, widening the cracks. At the same time, an underground spring was released in the west side of the bulge, and the water over many years widened the caves into the structures that the fleet now lives in.

From the outside, these caves look like this:

If you could see through the rock, it would look something like this:

The pool is twenty feet across on the short side. At the very edges it is about seven feet deep, but it slopes to be thirty feet deep in the center.

The lightest blue has a depth of seven feet (or less, with regards to the stream), the middle blue is around twenty feet, and the darkest blue is thirty. However, it is not actually terraced as it would appear to be above! It is a gradual slope down to a flat bottom.