your love is gonna drown.

She moved to help support him as he stood. Pretty lady all but offering to cuddle? Don't mind if I do. Kerosene learned against her shoulder a bit, using her as support as she guided him towards her water source. It was slow going as he had to pause for a few moments here and there to keep his head from spinning, but he suspected that was more from the dehydration than the scratch on his chin. Either way, they were off and he hoped they happened upon water soon.

She spoke. He tried his best to listen since she was replying to his question. Two herbs. The first he wasn't so familiar with. The second he'd at least heard of before. "What do they each look like? Smell like? For identification purposes?" he asked, trying to create a mental picture of something else since his own vision was blotchy. Water would help. Water was wonderful. Water was–

Here! They'd found it. He could hear the babbling of the brook and almost taste it upon the air. Kero mustered up a little pep into his step as he gave an extra boost to push him towards the water. Half crawling. He lowered his head to drink and nearly bathed in the cool sweetness of it. Tasted like heaven.