14 Death? 2

As she struggled for a few more minutes, she realized that she was under water and that is the reason she was unable to breathe easily.

She did not understand why her body was suddenly under water nor did she have the leisure to think about it at this moment.

All she could wonder is how to save herself and remain alive.

Her body was almost frozen and she couldn't swim for some reason. Her limbs couldn't move no matter how hard she tried.

She wanted to use magic to save herself. 'What was the spell to swim again?' She doesn't remember. But how could she not remember such a simple and low level spell?

Something is definitely wrong.

Even if she remembers, she doesn't have her wand in her hand and thus she did not think of the matter with the spell anymore.

She can neither swim nor use magic with her wand and a spell. Then how to survive this?

Did she lose everything? Is this the moment she is going to die after facing a number of ferocious beasts face to face and returning back with victory?

Is this the moment she is going to stop making anymore potions that she would be ready to face death just to make one?

She doesn't want to die yet.

But how?

What should she do?

As she was struggling with herself, she felt her body being dragged away as it floated within the water against the stream of the water flow.

Someone was here to save her.

Great!

She is not going to die yet!

After being dragged for a few seconds, she finally gasped as some air started entering her respiratory system.

She coughed a lot as the water that entered her system came out with every single cough.

It took a long time before her breathing turned stable and the entire water left her.

Once she was stable, she came to her senses and looked around to see unfamiliar surroundings.

Her brows frowned as she tried her best to remember where she was or how she came here.

She was very sure that she was sleeping on her bed just a few minutes ago after the end of the party.

Then where is she now?

She studied her surroundings and found that it was a large area of meadows with a small lake in the middle.

She was now sitting beside the lake and hence knows that she was about to drown in this same lake but luckily was still alive somehow.

"Are you okay?" She heard a voice and she looked around to see who was near but did not find anyone around.

Who was the one that saved her life? And who was the one that just spoke?

She turned her head around to find the presence of any living being but the water that entered her ears made everything feel fuzzy and thus her senses are yet to totally come back.

"I am here. Are you alright?" The voice spoke once again and this time Tanzi heard the voice clearly.

Hence she turned her head accurately towards the direction from which the voice came.

She saw that it was from the lake and thus looked below to see a man floating over the lake.

She blinked a couple of times looking at him and processed everything before confirming that he was a Merman that belongs to this lake.

She overturned her brain thinking how far any lakes that consist of any Mermans were near the Place of the Witches.

She was sure that there were no Mermans anywhere near the place where the Witches stayed.

Then, where exactly is she?

While she was blinking her eyes and thinking about many things, the Nereid in front of her was looking at her with amusement but there was also a layer of concern towards her.

He cleared his throat to make her come back to her senses and she looked at him with a clear gaze this time before speaking, "I.. I am sorry. My mind was not working clearly earlier. Are you the one that saved me? Thank you so much. I owe you my life. If not for you, I am sure that I would have lost my life by now."

Her words made the man frown but Tanzi did not notice it as she continued speaking, "By the way, can you tell me, where is this place? And by any chance do you know how I got here?"

He continued frowning as he asked with doubt, "You really don't know how you got here?"

Tanzi shook her head and the man asked again, "Say, do you know me?"

Tanzi was confused at his sudden yet weird question which was out of context but nevertheless answered him sincerely.

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