Your parched lips tremble as you try to form words, but only a raspy whisper escapes. Your tongue feels like a lump of sandpaper in your mouth, and your throat is burning. You try to swallow, but it's no use. Your body is screaming for water.

You squint your eyes against the blinding sun, but all you can see is a shimmering haze. The desert landscape stretches out before you in a vast and unforgiving expanse. Crisp dunes rise and fall like waves on a frozen sea, and the only sound is the wind.