Hot water
Hot water noun - A dangerous or distressing predicament.
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- Brought to ridiculous levels with Scylla (who had a strain of magma poured on her and didn't burned) or later King Midas, who is toss into a magmafall and instead of bursting into ashes he simply scream like it's hot water and then turn the whole thing into solid, cold gold.
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