Something Special!
Knowing that the water could yield deadly results, you decide to take your chances. Kneeling down at the edge of the stream, you take a long hard draught from the cold stream. You feel a warmth growing out from your chest...
It is followed by a dreadful clammy cold. You stagger and claw at your breast as you feel what you imagine to be the hand of the reaper placing its unbreakable grip on your heart.
You collapse by the edge of the stream, only just now noticing that the stones you observed before were actually the bleached skulls of other adventurers as unfortunate as you.
Darkness creeps in around the edges of your vision as you lay staring up through the trees. Your breath comes shallower and less and less frequently as warm sunshine splashes on your face, in sharp contrast to the void taking residence in your heart.
As you exhale your last breath, you distantly hear a tiny giggle. You find the strength to open your eyes, and find yourself staring at a tiny fairy who, flying just above your face is inadvertantly sprinkling its fairy dust all over you, granting you the power to crawl once again to your feet. The lurch to your feet startles the tiny creature, and before you have a chance to thank it, it flits off.
Shouldn't it be drought and inadvertently?