[ Gray bobs another fierce shake of her head 'no' -- but words die in her throat. It's not like she can tell a stranger of Add's importance. Her mouth drying, she feels as lost as she is useless. ]

[ There's a dog -- spirit? something -- flying through the air and it catches her attention, if only briefly as her teeth dig into lower lip. ]

I can swim... but I can't leave him behind.

[ "It" became "him" too easily, but she ignored it. The other is right, they need to get out of the water, but her attention stills to water and creature for a moment longer. A familiar -- the person was a mage? ]

This isn't my village.

[ Not it at all. Is this where everyone else had disappeared to, too? ]