Busy with playing and splashing, Eiko barely caught the disappointment of the people around her. But with Shelke slipping, she stopped splashing Denzel and let her fingers trail in the magic water. What were they saying about Iifa? There wasn't anything that special there except for Seymour's Farplane.

She would have offered some healing magic, but this spring was the best source of healing she knew, and if it didn't work... nothing in Gaia would. That sobered her a great deal, realizing that her two new friends were going to die from otherworld sicknesses. So Eiko sloshed through the water to Denzel and did what any kind, compassionate child in the same situation would do. Tugged his hair.