Iris:
"If you have nothing to say, we will leave," as I pressed, he finally opened his mouth.
"I heard the water speak to me," he replied.
"What did you say?" I asked Kash, pulling my eyebrows together.
Kash quickly gestured to Walkin, telling the kid to step away a little while we sat on the grass.
"I heard someone speak to me," he repeated, watching my face while plucking at the grass, as if waiting for my reaction.
"Are you sure that wasn't Lara?" I asked.
The minute I said that, he scoffed and rolled his eyes.
"Can we stop joking about that? It's a very old joke now," he remarked.
I began to groan at him. Honestly, I did not know what he wanted from me. What he was saying felt strange.
"Kash, I was there, and I did not hear anything. Maybe it was just the wind. It was howling," I told him.
I tried to make sense of his experience, but he seemed adamant. He shook his head again, this time more vigorously.
"Iris, she said my name," he replied.
