I just wanna live well I'm alive

His mock horror first surprised, then amused the young girl. She stifled her laughter and crept closer to her hero. She turned her expression into something serious and nodded her head. "I'm sorry. It's too late for you. You'll be a mud monster by nightfall" she informed him sadly, shaking her head in dismay. She crept closer yet, hoping her words where distracting him. When she was right before him, still only ankle deep in the water she pounced, leaping upwards and swiping at the mud that smeared his face. She succeed only in smudging it and taking the barest hint away with her. "Ah ha!" She cried. "There will only be one monster here" she informed him, wiping her paw on her head before she let her leg fall back into the water was tricky business but she managed it all the same. After that she began to prance about in the shallow water, her tiny trace of mud purposely smeared onto her forehead as she walked with prideful movements, prancing, really, through the water.