Christine stopped running at the edge of a small pond and decided to hide for the moment in a thicket near the edge of the water. She caught her breath, then tried to think.
The others couldn't be that far away. She suddenly felt like slapping her forehead. She was a drow mage! She had to have an arsenal of spells at her disposal! Finding the others shouldn't be that hard.
She thought a moment, then tried to cast a simple spell to local Mike, but found that she couldn't. She tried a few times, but there was no effect. She tried something easy, levitating a small rock, before realizing something was wrong.
It was because this ability was new to her that she realized that something was interfering with her abilities. There was some powerful magic very close. At first, she feared her pursuers, but she realized that it wasn't that at all, it was something that had been here since she took refuge.
Looking around the pond, she slowly began to realize that the magic was coming from something under the water. It was shallow water, and the object might be very valuble or important. Since she didn't see any sign of her pursuers, she considered taking some time and getting whatever it was out of the water.