Greatwater Lake burned but not buried this time

She gave him food.

Now she led him to water.

Dagur's brain flared with this new survival streak he had found in her. Still he tried to remember to remain out of reach. The harshness of bullying was a lesson he had learned with The Big Man. Now he had learned it again with her.

Yet still, if he wished to keep living, he could not always exist as a shadow. Stupidly he skirted closer on her trail along the waterways.

Guard down, he moved to lap at the water frantically.