[quote=@Pseudo Stygian]
With the way her eyes look, which is always far away, and the way she walks, which is always like she'll stumble into a pit without realising it, it's hard to tell whether Lyra is going somehwhere or just aimlessly  ambling around. But be assured, this time she had a goal: finding the water squirters. to... you know what, she hadn't thought this through. To tell them off for their lame trick, she supposed.

[i]"I-I don't think we should go looking for trouble!"[/i] ShiZen wa saying. Lyra brushed it off.

"My Dad always told me to leave no puzzle unsolved. I'm not leaving this one until I had it."

But with this fog and the dark and because the forest was unfamiliar, she couldn't manage more than running around on instinct, avoiding trees and sounds of trouble (was that a crashing sound? It's like someone---maybeee two students with the help of some wind magic?---fell off a tree). 

"Hmm, it's a bit hard to find our way around, isn't it?" A thought occured to her. "Hey you're water elemental aren't you? Can you, mmm, sense something in the fog? Fog's made of water."

Then her ears perked up. Something was blowing in the wind too: sounds.   There were chatters, footsteps, and, very faintly, the sound of running water. "I think I'm hearing something. Water? Hmm, the fountain?" 

Was there something they were supposed to do at the fountain? Lyra couldn't really remember.

[@Stern Algorithm]
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[quote=@Zelosse]
Location: The river, #1

The river flowed down through the forest in complete serenity. A natural flowing body of water that trailed into the forested area just a few minutes from where the fountain was located and ended up looping back down and out just a few minutes away from where it had started. Not a particularly long way to follow.

Such comforts could be deceiving..

With no other way to go but forward the students would have to use one of the many provided little wood bridges to cross the wide river and stay dry. 
Anyone attuned to the call of the water would feel something watching them.
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[color=a187be]"Oh, umm..."[/color] ShiZhen thought about it for a bit. For her, her elemental powers had been nothing but a nuisance. She came to this school to get rid of them, or at least get them under control. It hadn't occurred to her to actually put them to some use.[color=a187be]"I-I've never sensed anything with my powers before,"[/color] ShiZhen replied, but just saying it made her realize that that was incorrect. She remembered suddenly how there were a few times when one of her younger siblings got lost and she started absorbing moisture, she was able to find her lost sibling. In fact, whenever her power activated, she became acutely aware of the people around her, a sensation she had attributed to anxiety. She was already drenched anyways from the squirters guns, and something about this place was unsettling her. [color=a187be]"Actually, I do feel something, but I don't know what. And that sound, I think it's a river. And there are...bridges? But there's something else..."[/color] ShiZhen didn't want to talk about the other thing she sensed more than she had to; the inability to identify it properly only served to make whatever it was seem creepier.