Lion Head Mesa Just need someone to hold me, even though you don't even know me

More water than I've ever seen, Melody confirmed quietly, then shook her head to his question. I don't spend much time near water.

And she never would, if she had it her way. Water was a rarity in The Gilded Sea, especially in such abundance. It was precious. So of course a younger Melody would have been thrilled to find a whole pond full of it, teeming with life that couldn't be found elsewhere in the dry place she'd grown up in. Now that memory was the beginning of all her nightmares. She preferred not to think of it.