Alpine Lake here she comes and then she's gone again

he made his way towards her, slow and steady, and she waited with growing discomfort as her leg began to cramp. what had brought her up here? for a moment, she forgot, until her gaze shifted to one of the little waterfalls the launched itself so confidently down the rockface.  "I wanted to see where the water was coming from."  it was a pretty lame reason to have stranded herself up on this cliff, and spoke to her aimlessness in wandering here.