[He gets closer, little by little, almost overly cautious, before calling out--]
You... are you a-- water spirit? [The kind of faerie that hangs around water and heals you in the Legend of Zelda games? Could he bottle you? ... except he doesn't have a bottle, damn.]
Uh, just so you know, the water started it. [IT WASN'T HIS FAULT don't punish him and turn him into a mermaid or a floppy fish this is a desert he doesn't want to live his life in the reservoir, there are probably no plankton there so he'd die and it'd be sad.]