[Rainbowfox Ari]

The bright light of day didn't make the scene before Dara any less tragic. Before her lay a face-down child, probably not much more than sixteen or seventeen. There were drenched wings on the pale-skinned back, and a tail sprouting from the tailbone, easy enough to see since the child was completely naked. From the dimensions of the body, the slightly wide shoulders, and the general height, it was easy to tell the child was male. The feet appeared to end in small hooves, red in color. The tip of the tail was also red. Soaked hair pressed to the scalp, a red-brown in color and dark - although that was probably the fact that it was drenched.

The boy made no motion, which wasn't all that surprising considering he was face down and, to all casual observation, not breathing. The water was in the process from running from his skin, hair, wings, and tail in rivulets, drying quickly in the sun. It did nothing for the general state of the boy, however, who remained stubbornly unconscious and/or dead. The child did not appear to have been armed in any way when he went into the river. No weapons on his person or near him at all. Then again, there wasn't a stitch on him, so that could have burned up with the rest of his clothing. There was a pressing question to be asked, though. How had he not burned to a crisp along with what he was wearing?