18. Brighter

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"SAM, HOLY SH-" Valk starts to congratulate her as her team blasts out of the stadium

"CAN'T TALK, GOTTA SHOWER" Sam waves

"...We're following them, right?" Roxxane confirms

"HELL YEAH-Malissa, you mind? I'm trying to stop smoking, but it's too f#cking hard" Valk pats Malissa's horse back

"I suppose..." Malissa sighs

Valk climbs up Malissa

Malissa rushes off

Roxxane tests her hand at wind boarding again

"Where should we go, again?" Watt questions

"We are going to the lake" Lin drags the gravel out of his voice, squinting

"WHERE THE F#CK-WHAT HAPPENED?" Valk stares at Diantha

"HEAT STROKE" Watt answers

"OH F#CK" Valk's eyebrows raise

"WE ARE WORKING ON IT" Lin reminds

"THEN WH-HERE-ARE WE-EEE GOING?" Roxxane does her absolute best to balance but waves like a tube man

"LAKE" Lin answers

"I DON'T THINK WE CAN WAIT THAT LONG IF IT'S HEAT STROKE" Valk yells

"Then what is your idea?" Watt peers at Valk

"I dunno, like-maybe we make a little structure for her? Maybe we break into somebody's house? Something we can do in 5 minutes" Valk scratches her head, shrugging with her hands

"You know what-fine, you may be right" Lin shakes his head, quickly slowing down

Everybody else treks slower, skimming the area

"We need-walls, walls and a little box, like what-" Sam stops herself- "...we need walls and cold water" She thinks out loud

Roxxane hops off the windboard, pressing her fists together as stony walls begin to protrude out of an open part of land beside the trail

Lin stares at Roxxane with slanted eyes

"I know, hold on" Roxxane thrusts her palm out, causing a door to form in the wall

Lin tackles through the door, groaning

"HEPHIASTOS-CALM THE F#CK DOWN" Roxxane slowly raises her hands up

A large, open rocky box grows out of the ground in the center of the small house

Lin gently places Diantha in the box

Sam goes inside next, starting to strip Diantha down

"WHOA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Lin covers his eyes

"It'll cool her down faster, I'm pretty sure, at least" Sam furrows her brows

Nera squawks

"WATER?" Roxxane calls out

"HOLD ON-GET IT READY, I JUST NEED TO SO SOMETHING" Sam speeds up, slinging the clothes at Lin

"WAS THAT A BRA? Oh god, I'm not a perv, not a perv" Lin stares at the sky, Diantha's clothes cradled in his arms

"YO, YOU NEED SOME HELP?" Valk offers, sliding off Malissa

"UNLESS YOU FEEL LIKE HOLDING THE CLOTHES" Lin shivers

Valk rolls her eyes

"NOW WATER" Sam approves

Roxxane slithers her arms around as the rain begins to direct itself at the makeshift tub

"I didn't know you could do that, huh" Valk pokes her bottom lip out, rolling her head back in surprise

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