[Poggio]

He felt something rub against his back, he turned to set it on fire but the motion only made more water come up. When he finally reached the phase where he was merely choking on air he turned to see the girl had crawled over to him. He didn’t trust himself to speak, at least not in her direction. He pulled his bag closer to him wondering if anything inside escaped into torrent. He was thankful to come across a waterproof bag with all of his items inside safe and dry. He pulled out one of his emergency blankets and draped it over the girl. Feeling his flames dwindling he decided to use the other blanket for fire fodder. He rolled it up setting it a blaze. He scooted away from the girl and slowly forced himself to his feet. He trudged back over to the current and started to look for the cat