OOC:
In general, absolutely, the ability is there to be used.
You raise an interesting question as to what constitutes a body of water that could be communed with though.
And I had not thought of so small of, nor temporary, "bodies of water" in my conception of it. So, active rain, dew, a puddle that will soon soak into the ground or evaporate. Probably not able to get much of a sense of things from.
Where would it stop, right? If there's humidity, there's water.
I guess I would say it's nebulously about water that has "character", or "life". A water feature that, in the strange mysticism is Tolkien, might have a "spirit", like a Goldberry or Tom Bombadil, linked to it, just as those spirit figures are linked to "the river" and "the old forest" (one of the other Ordeal options would have taken you guys to meet a Tom Bombadil-like figure, but of the Andrast Mountains).
And it's not that you're "speaking" with such a figure when you use the ability. You're not speaking at all, it's more about "sensing" and being able to experience what the water might have experienced.
But anyway, something so small as a babbling brook or even a small seasonal pond or wetland. Absolutely. Puddles and dew. Sorry, but no.
As for the larger effort of getting closer, if you all want to try to remain undetected, give me a Group Stealth check, please!
As a reminder, at least one half of the group must succeed for a Group Check to be successful.
The general course of the distant figures seems to be away from you all. But as is the nature of mountainous travel, switchbacks could point them in your direction rather unpredictably, even if only for a short time.
As Cirion thinks back to what he experienced by the mountain pool at the foot of the waterfall, during their ordeal, and the things he felt through the water - and whether he might be able to feel similar things here, he can see their is a mountain stream the winds along the bottom of the small valley, between the figures and him.
And although they are well away from it now, and getting further from it with every step, perhaps they passed over or through it earlier?
There is also the matter of the cold... the frosted grass and the crust of snow, begs the question of, will there be any liquid water in the stream?
