A huge mesa that climbs miles into the sky. It is composed of a rusty orange sandstone. Vultures are constantly seen swooping in and around the clouds that surround the mesa. It has steep cliffs that are nigh unclimbable.
Towering Mesa, Desert
stinging scorpion
vulture
I am a carrion bird. I soar above, waiting for you to die or be dead, then I eat you.
Keep your stinger to yourself, wee scorpion! Then best stay back, flying giant! I'm just looking for lunch, the same as you. Why else would you be on this mesa? The giants kept invading my space, so I have moved here. You don't eat me, I don't sting you. Deal? Fair deal. I'd shake on it, but... your stinger and all. Say- what do you eat? Smaller bugs. You seen any? I can show you a dead giant if you can show me the bugs. Hmm... you know, I did see some bugs just off the side of the mesa. A huge nest of them. Is this giant you speak of alive or dead? Dead, dead. I stung him once just for good measure. He didn't move. Take me to the bugs, please. I'm hungry. Here- look this way! See all those bugs! There have got to be hundreds of them.  These bugs are too small. I need bigger. Hmm.... larger bugs. I'll have to think. Bigger or smaller than a mouse? Bigger. Also, the human is probably eight thousand of my steps towards the sun.