If the lava is glowing, you should avoid it, yes.

Otherwise, well, hey! I live on a volcano, and I've lived on volcanoes for years. They just happen to be extinct is all. Not that the dormant ones aren't fun to play on...

Is she obsessed enough to know the difference between a lava flow and a nuee ardente yet? To know why shield volcanoes are less dangerous than stratovolcanoes, or why cinder cones never get very big?

See if you can get Melissa to dig out that book I gave her and read that poem about the volcano and the