[The waterfall quest is complete. You know that.]
'I know.'
[The Water Goddess ability is unlocked. Level 1. You know that too.]
'Puffball. What is the POINT?'
A pause.
[I didn't tell you everything the ability does,] Puffball said, and its voice was careful. [I told you Level 1. Control over water flow, purification, distribution. All true.]
'And?'
[At Level 10, the ability includes something called Source Reading.] His voice was steady and deliberate. [It means you can look at a water source and see its entire history. Where it's been. What passed through it. What was done to it and when and by whom.]
Faelyn was very still.
'What are you saying?'
[The contamination in the waterfall, three hundred years of it, you cleared it. But the water remembers, Fur. Water always remembers. And when you can read water sources, you can ask the waterfall what it remembers.]
'Meaning I could find out who contaminated it.'
