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The caricaurs all looked at me
and said
no
we definitely tried the lake first
and a whole group of dracans
fought us,
that’s why we went for the town
at the crack of dawn.
Sorry, little creature,
they must’ve been lying to you.
Probably the one you thought was a friend, too.
Then
they didn’t put me down
but went off running
and I
dried out like a prune
in the heat of the waste
especially since
we weren’t running back to the lake
like I suggested,
we were apparently
heading to their town
to tell everyone else
the water was theirs now.
And I wanted to yell
and thrash
and throw more flare runes
because
Runabon
definitely wasn’t
malevolent–
but I was trying to conserve water.
So I just waited there.
And let some annoying creature
carry me
across a desert
for the second time in my life.
Some adventurer I was.
I couldn’t even
stop things from scooping me up
and carrying me along
like a lost fish
who needs tossed back into the water.
***
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