Mudminnow River Call her Miss Mirage 'cause it's over, there's no way to hold her

Kel let out a breath when the dark wolf offered to travel further down the river with him. He looked away from the river and smiled back, but it was tinged with sadness. It's generous of you to offer, but I wonder if it might be time to write it off as a lost cause. It's looking like I'm the only one who made it this far, He wouldn't think of them as dead. He would think of them as lost, and hope that someone found them. It just couldn't be Kel; that last look at the river had made him realize that if he spent any more time staring at it and pinning his hopes on it, he would lose his mind. Now that he was talking to someone, he didn't want to go back to that fearful solitude.