Licking his parched lips, he looked around at the men on the floor.

He hesitated for a moment then brought the water to Kaverin's parched lips.

The words of magic wouldn't come to her parched, pale lips.

His parched lips opened, but no sound came out.

The words he was about to call died on his suddenly parched lips.

The word please was already forming on her parched lips.

Drawing the back of his hand over his parched lips, he looked behind him.

When he spoke, his words were gasps that came from dry, parched lips.

From parched lips almost too stiff to speak, he asked for water.

Their parched lips would not articulate, but they whispered 'Water!