With a guttural, strained cry, the Third Wife planted her feet, leaned all her weight backward, and pulled with everything she had left.
SPLASH!
Heena's head broke the surface of the water.
She violently gasped, sucking in a massive, desperate breath of air before her body immediately betrayed her.
Cough! Cough! Cough!
Heena choked, violently expelling the foul, freezing water from her lungs. She sounded like she was going to cough her entire respiratory system onto the floorboards. Her chest heaved, her eyes watering, her throat burning with a completely different kind of agony now.
Hovering right next to her ear, the glowing blue lion was absolutely furious.
"I knew it! I knew it!" the System screamed, pointing a glowing, accusatory paw at the weeping woman. "This woman is a double agent! She is trying to kill my Host! Assassinate her! Cook her! Drown her! What's next, dropping a piano on her head?!"
