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Rivers are drying and crops are dying, but children run and play in the fields, and think they might even enjoy setting monsters free. Of course, the parents won't approve, but that's the least of their problems, come the flood. Next time he wakes, the young man remembers running in different fields. But he still can't catch the girl, or find how to stay in one place. Loves proves as elusive as gold at rainbow's end, and time slips through his fingers once again. Maybe it's fate. Maybe fame and fortune have something in mind. Or maybe when time finally runs out someone else might help him find what he's looking for.