Firestone Hot Springs with a pocket full of gold

Katmai made a scolding sound at her for the second splash, but it was clear he was having fun. Her mischief delighted him, and did succeed in drawing him the rest of the way into the water. Now he was only a floating head, though the rest of his body felt strangely buoyant in the warm water.

"You are the doctor," he agreed, thinking that a soak like this would have been lovely while starvation and then regaining that weight had made his body so sore. But... "You would have to dry off again, in the winter," he thought, briefly saddened by the reminder that they would need to dry from this as well. And from the baths they would need to take to get rid of the smell.

"We would just have to spend the whole winter in one of these," he decided, speaking in a sage tone of voice, now. "Perhaps our toes will turn into fins to help us hunt." He peered down into the darkness below once more. "Do you think there are fish in any of these?"