River is Down

Suddenly, Cindie felt she was someone else .. .She had crossed the river! The very act had made her into a different person. The weight on her heart, the muffling in her ears were all because she had crossed the water and there was no way back. Looking around her at the wide, wild, hot spinifex plain of a world, she knew she was not Cynthia Davenport any more. Now she was free to be Cindie Brown!