Amazon peered down through the water. She had traveled the way up the river to this place here, where the water spread around a huge submerged device deep at the bottom. She leaned forward, her nose gently touching the tip of the river, as if looking closer would make her see any better. She didn't know what that thing down there was. She wanted to know, though, but was there a way to get closer?

She had been through most of Polaris by now. There were a few places she hadn't yet visited, or, at least, hadn't visited well enough. The dam being one of them and the general area of the cave. She would like to explore those more in depth. But this thing was different then everything she had seen so far. She wanted to know what it was and what it was doing down there. What if she touched it? No, she couldn't move through water. She was certain that the current would immediately drag her away.

But, it didn't look too far down! Maybe if she just reached forward...

But as she strained herself forward to touch the water with her claw, she felt her back claws begin to slide. Panic filled her and she tried to scrabble back, but she slipped and fell face-first into the river.

As soon as she was submerged, she looked down and her eyes widened with shock. Whatever that thing was, it was a lot bigger then it looked on the surface and way farther down then she had realized. But she didn't have time to consider this as the current swept her away a moment later.

She struggled to the surface, bursting through the water, gasping for breath. She tried to call out, but another wave smashed down on her head, pulling her under again. Terror fueled her limbs to work tirelessly as she continued to try and breach long enough to call for help. Finally, she felt her body bump into something and desperately grabbed at it. A rock, just barely sticking out from the river, providing at least a temporary hold for her to get her head out of the water. She sucked in a breath and screamed, with all of her strength, "HELP!!"

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Amazon couldn't see anything, her lids shut tight to protect the precious eyes underneath from the spray of the river water. All she heard was the flapping of wings and that could mean one of two things - either something had seen easy pickings or she was being rescued. Hoping it was the latter, she cracked open her eyes to see the flying dog just in front of her.

She didn't stop to register how strange a thing it was or if it was even there to help, she just instinctively grabbed out at the horns it offered in front of her. However, as she let go of the rock, she realized exactly how small and weak she really was and felt herself slip. With a terrified squeak, she fell back into the water. The current immediately picked up her tiny body and threw it along again, tossing her around as if she were nothing but a stick. Fear sent her into a frenzy, grabbing out at anything blindly, trying desperately to swim. But it was no use. She would never be strong enough to swim these waters alone.

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As Amazon was thrown downstream, she felt something soft curl against her body and, immediately, she began to struggle with fear. Envy had told her about big things that would want to eat her, things that would want to harm her. She had told them that she was unappetizing due to her scales...but perhaps she was wrong.

As the thing closed around her body, she fought to get free, both from the creature and from the river. With a cry, she lashed free and was plunged back into the deep, furious depths of the waves. All of her energy spent, she took one last gulp of air before giving into the river, her body going limp.

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PS: only Amazon's gem is warm and only a little big . The rest of her is still cold blooded reptile.

This time, in her exhaustion, Amazon did not even notice the water rising. To her, it was merely the river finding a new way to toss her about. After all, she didn't care anymore. She was so tired, she just wanted to sleep. Sleep for a long, long time.

But something Khloros said stroked a chord of memory. "But to say the last few moments do not matter is to claim that none of life matters." Was this what dying was? If so, she wasn't ready! Sure, she could still learn in her last moments but there was much more she could see if she was not to die! Besides, he had told her that she was dying anyways...that still had to come.

As the water parted from around her muzzle she gasped in a breath with surprise and cracked open her eyes. Through the haze of water, she managed to see what was going on. Was she flying? She looked around and pushed her head a little farther so that her eyes could blink open completely. She was. Above the river in what looked like a bubble of water. Shocked, she could not move. If there was a creature that wanted to eat her, this couldn't be it. Water would not eat her like this...would it?

But then she was set down in front of the white and black thing she had seen before and she could do nothing but stare at it with shock. Had that thing done this? Was it a god? Or the god of death? Was this dying? She opened her mouth to speak and barely got out a hoarse whisper. "How did you do that?"

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It took longer for things to process in Amazon's head due to the shock of the whole experience. But after a moment she realized she hadn't thanked the wolf-creature for literally saving her life. "Oh...thank you. For saving me! I thought I was gonna die!"

But the concept of magic was so alien to her that just the word caused her eyes to go huge and round. "So that was you! Incredible! How? No, I haven't really come across magic besides...I watched a horse do something but I don't know if it was magic, it was very different. But how did you do it? How do you use magic? And to form water like that must have taken a lot of energy, even though I'm so small!"

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