Up the mountain trail you tread, up to the next village. The stream that runs down the mountain seem to have dried up, or stopped flowing. Was it the villages up the mountain damming it?
"Thirsty eels, you would think it was a town of fish up there with the amount of water they must be pooling!"
A simple task sure enough, just a couple of days of journey. What could go wrong?

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