See? I told you, you look like you could be an earth fairy. Honestly, you look more like a normal fae than I do.

[Aaand now they're close enough to the spring to see it- a cliff face with various spouts of water burbling from cracks and holes in the rock, filling up a pond below and flowing into a few streams from there out into the woods. Unsurprisingly, there are several other people also at the spring to fetch water, so it's probably best to table the conversation about neither-of-them-being-normal-fae for the time being.]

Ah, we're here.

[Emery steps over to the water's edge and sets his bucket down beside him, before dipping his hand in the water. He flinches a little as he does.]

Ih! It's really cold.

[Nevertheless, Emery scoops some water out of the pond and takes a drink from his hand.]