ChasxSabri🫧’s Reviews > The Gardener and the Water-horse > Status Update

Then he paused, lifting his head. "And you are not a nobody. You are Safira, who has bargained with a water-horse and won his friendship, who commands the earth to grow her food and who walks softly by the shore. They may not care to think of you, but they are mere flashes of lightning in the sky. I will remember you when their names have been forgotten."

"If you ask for it, I will return it."
Her lips twitched. I watched them curve into a true smile. "May I have my rock back, Celyn?"
I looked back into her eyes, pushing myself up into a sitting position. "I will return it to you the next time you come to my shore and call me," I promised, with an eagerness pounding through my veins.”

He’s securing that next visit😭smart

“Temptation seized me, and not so many days after the man left, I went up and touched the pump. I didn't even need to work to break the spell; the touch of any of the great fey powers, who are innately creatures of power, can overwhelm many such things, like floodwaters washing away ditches. The spell crumbled, and I waited. Now, surely, she would come and ask for a thing I could give so easily:water.”

CALLED IT

Did this man ruin the water pump just so he could talk to her and help her😭