As the rain was too heavy, Damien placed a stone basin outside, and shortly after it was half-filled with water. Irina used rainwater to wash up this morning.

Damien crouched next to Irina watching her brush her teeth. Seeing her mouth full of foam, he smudged some of it onto his finger.

“What are you doing?” Irina asked incoherently as she raised her head.

Damien placed the foam into his mouth, then spat out his saliva.

“Tastes horrid.”

Irina clenched her teeth on her toothbrush and quickly finished brushing her teeth and rinsing her mouth, before washing her face.

This toothbrush had been used for two to three months now....