Stone Circle Why is the [water] gone?!

Though Merrit was a headstrong child, and more removed from his emotions than others his age, he was not unforgiving. When wrongs were admitted, he much preferred to let things lie than to dwell on things that made him and others feel bad inside, so he received his sister's apology with an open heart, even if his only visible display of reception was a gentle bump in return.

They moved all the way along the riverbank until they reached the invisible divide between the familiar and the foreign. Here they stopped. The river continued unobstructed for miles, but visibly low, and even when he squinted he could see neither bison nor Greyback blocking the stream. So he had been wrong, but that left him unfazed. Now that they were here, his defunct theory paled beneath the mystery of the unknown that lay before them still. "I wan'ta come," he said with a firmness to his words and looked to his mother, then to Steph, hoping for their agreement.