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[h3]Louis[/h3]
You awake with a headache under a brown-leafed tree. It seems to shade you from the harsh light as you gaze across flat, sandy ground as far as the eyes can see. Mostly. As you look around, you can see two clusters of Shadows along the horizon: a rounded one to the east, based on the rising sun, and a few "blocks" to the south. You notice a small sword buried in the tree that shades you and a wooden shield about the size of your torso. A tree a few yards off has a shadow that seems to be growing- no, [i]approaching[/i]- you. Fast. It looks like a kid. About ten or so. You can't tell the gender from this distance, but can see that it's clothes are very torn and tattered. You then hear it: water. 

Next to your tree, on the other side, is a tiny spring of water bubbling from the ground. Looking back at the shadow child, you see that it's direction seems more logically aimed at the spring than you, but its eyes are locked on you, as if to challenge you to stop it. The face looks male, but it looks like he's wearing a large cloth tunic or poncho.