As you know, we have been working with the witches in the Fetters on a cure for the drought plaguing Ke-Waihu.

Hyang-Tai has advised that the dark waters we have seen about the village resulted from a fertilization cure given to them by a wanderer in white. It has regressed to its more primal state, as she describes it, because of the spillage from the mountain, but she described a way that we may be able to restore these dark waters to their more natural state and thus restore the cure to the surrounding village.

We would need to cool it or add it to water. Both of these things are scarce at this time, given the state of the volcano. Which led to the suggestion of a more magical intervention...

[He has to pause to breathe sometime...]