Dehydration sucks(open)

Tallulah Poseidon
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Hopping up onto my horse I gratefully pat my small back pack filled with two small jugs of water. Thank god we could afford that. I keep my legs around one side of Enchant, the way a lady should. Adjusting my position, I straighten, letting the wind brush it's invisible fingers through my hair. I let it fall back in place before closing my eyes and tilting away from the sun. There were definitely enough clouds for rain today. But, it would be the first rain after a month or two of devastating heat. Letting a loud whistle escape my lips, Enchant begins to move under me and I can feel her every muscle toggle, flex and relax.

Holding onto the saddle, I conduct her over, past the fence. Walking along the path I take to school, I reach down, opening the sack and coming out with one jug. It's about the size of a rat. Not so big. I've only seen a large jug maybe once. Some lady at another horse farm had one. Wiggling my toes I scrunch both feet into one foothold. I look around. I had gone the opposite way of town. What had it been... An hour? My forehead crinkles a bit as I squint my eyes, hand shielding them, as I look at the sun. Eventually I give up, looking away. And almost fall off my horse.

"H-hey! Are you okay?!" I shout, seeing a random person over to my left near some cows. I couldn't focus on them. I had been hallucinating for a while, seeing false water on the road ahead of me for a while. Now, I could only see the outline of someone. But, I knew it was a living being. Maneuvering Enchant over, somehow, I jump off the horse, giving up on her slow pace, and run over, stumbling a bit on my freshly healed ankle. "Hello?!" I say, leaning over the person. I couldn't see them through my blind eye, covered by my long ginger hair, obviously and, I couldn't see them through my good, blue eye, thanks to staring at the sun. "Do you need water?! Or food?!"

Today is a good day. It's riding day. Only two weeks ago I broke in this beautiful young quarter horse. He's fast in his turn, a good, strong hind leg. To get him used to tree branches swaying in the breeze, birds, the occassional deer jumping across the fields I'm allowed to take him for a ride today. We've been out for about an hour doing an easy trot when I spot somebody else with a horse in the distance. It's not really the path I would have taken but I'm too curious.

So I direct the horse towards the person and soon see that she is bent over another one. The green dress. I recognise it immediately. This has to be Tallulah. What is she doing though?

Behind her I come to a halt and jump off the horse letting the reigns drop to the ground and tell him to stay. I hope he knows what I want from him.
Then I walk around her. "Hey Tah..." My voice gets caught in my throat when I see the person on the ground croaking for water. He must be awefully dehydrated by the looks of it.
"Wait. I have water." I run back to the saddle and untie one of my small flasks of water.
In a second I'm back and next to the kid on the ground. Carefully I place the bottle between his lips and slowly let the liquid flow into his mouth.
"It's water. Drink."

REX

I gulp down the water that the boy offers me. Oh, it taste soooo good,at the moment it seemed like there was nothing better then the flavorless taste of the cool water. Soon the water canteen is gone and I look sadly at it.

I sit there as the girl talks to the boy. I don't want to give her my name but, she did try to help, and after all if she tried to run off on her horse to find a peacekeeper I would just shoot her with my arrow before she got there."My name's Rex Bueno and I was with my sister, Rose, I'm supposed to meet her in the district sqaure, and if I don't meet her she'll probably leave."I said in a raspy voice.'More water?"I asked the boy sticking out my hand.