They’d spent days wandering the rocky wilderness. Nothing but weird
rocks as far as they could see.
When they saw a village on the horizon, they made for it as quickly as
their ravaged bodies could go.
Eagerly they looked for a water source, but none could be seen.
Pantomiming, they made clear they were dying of thirst, but all the
village people did was try to hand them rocks.
Disgusted and cursing, they left, dying a few days later.
The people of the village watched them go, occasionally squeezing a
refreshing drink from the rock-like sponges in their hands.
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