When they reached the Sweetwater Sea, she told the shedding-skin woman, "The great hunter, the one who cut apart the wishiwashi, he wandered about and still had not found his wives. But then, he smelled wishiwashi heating on a fire and knew they must be close, and he was very angry now, because it was forbidden for women to cook them or to eat them."
The shedding-skin woman was at first perplexed. "In this story, didn't wishiwashi only just appear?"
Sundown laughed. "Didn't I tell you, time is strange? A husband both his wives flee from, he's not the sort to care when and why, about whether people were ever told."
And the shedding-skin woman nodded in understanding.
"Now, so angry he is that he abandons his camp and his canoe, but the wives hear him coming and they build a raft of grass trees (13) and reeds and float from one side of the Sweetwater Sea to the other."
When the woman drank, she said, "There is bitterness to this."
And Sundown nodded. "That's why I'm here. When the river flows well, it goes from sweet sea to the bitter one. Now so little water comes from the land, so low is the sweet water, that the ocean flows down into the land."
"Can you change something like that?"
Sundown rubbed the head of the fussing komala. He'd begun to bite and blood marked her arm. "I'm bringing him to my cousins the anchorage (14). He'll tell them of the world above, in waking and dreams. And the anchorage speak in turn with the serpents at the bottom of the world, who have such a power. "
In the night, the lycanroc accused, "You're no runaway wife."
"No," Sundown agreed.
"You'll be devoured," the lycanroc told her. "One way or another."
"I've told you, Lycanroc. It won't be your teeth."
13) The lack of a comma is not an error. Grass trees are a subfamily of plants found across Australia.
14) Based on the scrapped GS beta pokemon, ikari (anchor/anger).