The river roared like no storm nor beast she had ever heard.
In the tales and the lessons of her childhood, the Forbidden Lands reeked and teemed with evil, death, mayhem, horror.
Hands gripping a root that jutted like a tentacle from the rocky and muddy bank, the rising, angry water seemed to be her only immediate foe.
Somewhere on land was Iyyada, the closest Forbidden civilization to her homeland of Thuu.
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