don't drink the yellow water - open; drinking sea water

[RHINESTONE.]

LEADER ❝ RHINE ❞ PALMCLAN

To most, anybody who was caught drinking seawater would probably be seen as an enormous idiot in their eyes. Rhinestone even had to admit that it was a bit ridiculous to actually see such a thing happening right before his very eyes. However, it wasn't as if he couldn't understand it. Not everyone had grown up with the ocean as their front yard, and they probably wouldn't be able to see the downsides of drinking seawater. However, Rhine did have to silently question why Dovah continued to drink from it, even after he had noticed it was salty. Didn't that taste bad? The leader could still remember the few times he had taken in enormous gulps of seawater while he had been trying to master swimming, and that hadn't been a pleasant experience. The sharp and salty taste had always caused him to recoil, no doubt interrupting his own rhythm and driving him to ingest even more of the unpleasant tasting liquid. It had become a vicious cycle at that point, and Rhinestone was very glad that he no longer had to deal with that, since he had swimming down to a t.

The ruddy tom approached a bit more slowly than both Vaas and Drifting Feather, mainly because it seemed as though the pair of them had addressed the immediate issues with what Dovah was doing. Rhine didn't really approve of Drifting headbutting the other feline away from the water, but at least she was small enough that she didn't do too much damage. The leader soon came to a stop beside Vaas, sitting back on his haunches and speaking with a chuckle and a crooked smile, "Vaas and Drifting are right, Dovah. The ocean is definitely nice for swimming in, and it gives nice prey, but it isn't a great source of drinking water. You'll actually just end up making yourself more thirsty then when you started – plus, you'll probably end up heaving it all up later." His words weren't pretty, but they were a fairly certain reality. After taking a mouthful or two of seawater, you probably weren't going to be feeling in tip-top shape.

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— Reggan