Redsand Canyon They came to see you spit your game

for @Derg
location: territory 7 - paradise falls
set for late afternoon

The canyon was hotter than he liked. Normally, he stuck to places that didn't make him feel like he would boil alive inside his dark raven coat, and during the hottest parts of the day, he wondered if he might be better off leaving and spending his days somewhere that didn't exacerbate the heat of the summer. He did tend to be somewhat dramatic, especially in situations where he was inconvenienced in any way. Knowing this about himself, he decided to find somewhere cool to hide until the sun went down and he could find something useful to do and not die of heat exhaustion. 

The sound of rushing water could be heard somewhere close by, and the beast spent the better part of an hour trying to find the source. Painstaking minutes were spent trekking through the sweltering canyon before he finally submerged from its depths and was able to look down over the sparkling clear water. The dryness of his mouth suddenly became unbearable, and he could think of nothing other than scaling down the other side of the canyon wall and plunging his face into the water. 

And he did just that. He submerged his face into the water and then furiously lapped in as much of the cool liquid as his stomach would allow. Then, feeling sloshy inside, he found a shaded rock near the water fall kept cool by the mist provided by the force of water hitting water and leaped atop it to promptly sprawl out and cool himself off. 

Within minutes, his eyes drifted shut. He didn't allow himself to fully sleep though—he never did; his ears were very much aware of the sounds around him. For now though, all he heard was the sound of falling water.