I felt something warm entering my mouth, I tried opening my eyes but it was so heavy that lifting it is almost impossible. "What happened? Oh-" I realized that it must have been the result of using that much mana in a single go.
I'm wasted. I don't even know how much time has passed since I fainted nor do I know what is entering my mouth. "I hope it's not something strange." I hope.
I was being fed by someone, I can feel myself starting to get full, but why? I don't understand. "No matter how generous a person is, shouldn't they be wary of me first, a complete stranger?"
Thinking about it did not make any progress and what I felt next shocked me. After feeding, I felt like I am being wiped by a wet towel. It started on my upper body but when it slowly moved down to my lower body, I tried to resist.
"Move it, you dumb fuck! Arg! Whoever it is, they going to touch my thing!" I tried to scream but that also proved to be useless.
As if fate is still cruel to me, my eyes suddenly opened and the scream that I was not able to let out, had gone out. "ARGGGGG!-? Huh?"
The girl that I last saw, I thought it was just a dream. But, why is she wiping me down there?
My face turned red before I knew it and out of nowhere, "KYAAAAAAAA!" I screamed like a molested girl because I felt I was.
"You're awake! Thank goodness, you have been sleeping for more than a week now that I thought you'll just die off!" she sounded as if I was just about to die, did I look like that to her?
"I guess that would be the case-" I looked at my body, "She said that I was sleeping for a week but how come I'm not thin at all? Usually, you would get thin doing nothing but sleeping. Was it not the case?" I thought go myself.
I am baffled by that. But more importantly, now that I have calmed down, I realized that I am naked.
"Uhm, why am I naked?" I asked. That was the only thing that I could ask her. Whether she tells me something that makes sense will determine the situation.
"I'm washing you. You have been sleeping for so long that I felt like I needed to wash you. I was the one that rescued you after all, so I guess I have to at least do that much..?" she is shy. It was obvious, it was her first time seeing a young man's body.
"Thank you-?" I gathered my clothes and immediately changed in front of her. It was inevitable, she had already seen everything. There is no need to hide it from her anymore but I'll just turn around. "Who knows how many times I have been washed by her."
Just thinking about it makes me even more embarrassed. "Thank you very much for helping me, a total stranger. I would have not survived if it weren't for you."
She just smiled and brushed it off like it was nothing. "There's no need to thank me. I just did it out of goodwill." She replied. Even though I felt a bit embarrassed, I managed to look at her face.
She is beautiful, her tanned face tells me that she is a hard worker. Always basking in the sun but despite that, I did not feel any calluses on her hands when she was washing me earlier.
"I see that you are well enough to stand. This is a house that has been abandoned by my people for a long time so you ate safe here. If you still don't feel well, you can stay here until you get better." She's kind.
She offered me to stay here after helping me countless times already, but I cannot impose on her any longer than I already had. "She must have had things to do and instead, she came here and take care of me. I cannot leave without giving her something."
Just when I was looking for something in my bag, I felt lightheaded and my knee got weaker. I was falling to the floor and my to surprise, I felt an unknown power holding me up. "You should take it easy first." She suggested.
"This is- wind magic," I muttered. And there was only one person who is with me, it was her.
"You are a mage?" I mumbled before losing consciousness again. "I'm not really good at it though- looks like he lost consciousness again. How many times has it been now?" she asked herself and used the wind to carry William back to the bed.
"Why does he keep falling unconscious like that?" that is what she wanted to ask William every time he woke up but she could not bring herself to strain him after he woke up.
"How did he know that I am a mage? Is he also a mage?"
These are the questions that plague her mind and she has to wait for William to recover completely from what he is suffering before she could ask those things.
Before leaving William, she gathered fruits around the house and put them beside William so he can eat something after waking up. A smile on her face appears as she stares at William's sleeping face as if she had longed for him for a long time.
"Please wake up soon." She whispered as she kneels down and kissed his cheek. "Please wake up soon, my life-saver."
She remembered the time when William first appeared, at that time she is being attacked by a monstrous black bear. Amira is part of a hunting party for that day to bring meat for their people.
Most of them are already injured from the bear's attack and Amira is left alone to face it. Fortunately enough, it was also the time when William fell from the sky. And as if he was fated to save Amira and her party that day, the frozen wings on William's back showered upon the black bear, piercing through its body, and the black bear was slain.
"I am more indebted to you than you think, please rest well, our hero." She said as she closed the door of the house.
Earlier, she told William that it was an abandoned house but the exterior of the house is well maintained and not a single broken roof nor window can be seen.
"Let's go, Amira. The chief is looking for you." Her acquaintance said as she glance at the house before looking at Amira who is already blushing just by thinking about what happened earlier. "What are you flustered about?"
"Nothing, it's just I feel like today is special," she replied.