Daru and his comrades gathered water by the lake.
They were unsure whether it was safe to consume, yet they refilled their canteens and bottles anyway.
There are very few things a good boil cannot kill. Furthermore, this was simply to give themselves a desperate option.
They wouldn't drink it and would probably even discard it once a cleaner source was available.
Elara suggested that they adjust their bodies to a polyphasic sleeping cycle, and so they've also been doing that in the past few days.
While Daru was still feeling a bit weaker than usual, his body was finally catching up.
He was initially reluctant, as he was a firm believer of the eight-hour sleeping schedule, but since they're in a race, they must maximize their waking hours.
This was progress in being flexible and flowing like his swordsmanship.
Thus, they would only sleep whenever the Hissing would happen, though even that would be in a rotation.
