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thinking of fresh water. But the demoness wouldn't tell, if she asked.
So she shrugged. "I'll go around it."

"Actually, it's not as if the Kiss-Mee Lake hurts anyone. It's not
nearly as bad as a love spring."

So this was the Kiss-Mee Lake! She had heard of it.

"Wasn't there some trouble with the associated river? I heard that your
friends pulled it straight, and then it was known as the Kill-Mee
River."

"Yes, the hummers got really bad. That's when I had to leave, and I
found the ogre's den. But I helped him restore the river. That was
interesting."

"So I will just walk around it to the south," Mela said.

"By all means. I will walk with you."

That meant that there promised to be something interesting for the
demoness to the south, which in turn meant that Mela wouldn't like it.
"Oh-the Kiss-Mee River flows from the south shore!" Mela said,
realizing. "So I can't go that way, unless I want to mess with fresh
water anyway. I I

"Sure enough," Mela agreed, disappointed.

"So I'll have to walk around it to the north instead."

"By all means."

That did not sound promising either. But what other choices were there?
Mela certainly didn't want to swim across it, and she couldn't fly
across it.

She opened her invisible purse and took out her manual.

What she wanted was surely in there, but she didn't know what to look
for. That was why she couldn't use it to locate a husband; it showed
all the creatures of Xanth, but couldn't point out individuals or give
their marriage status.

Now she needed a way to cross the lake without soiling her body with
fresh water, and the manual couldn't tell her how.

The sky darkened, dimming the page. She looked up.

There over the water a nasty little cloud was forming. So she flipped
the pages until she came to clouds, and there it was: King Cumulo Fracto