Crescent Camp Outskirts

Shani didn’t remember fainting, but she surmised that she did when she woke to complete unfamiliarity…again.

It took her a moment for sensation to return, her senses getting their bearings. There was the sound of trickling water and distant voices; the feel of rhythmic hands on her face and neck, and a strong body holding her in the current of the water.

Questions drew her quickly into consciousness. And several realizations: she was ...