A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 94

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

A week. 

I lasted a week before I started to get restless, wondering how much longer I‘d need to wait before my body could finally cope again. 

But surely a week was long enough, right? Enough that I would be allowed to begin what I wanted to? 

And so I quickly grabbed the clipboard at the end of my bed, the one that was for my medical chart, and flipped the pages over to start writing on the blank side. 

...And I closed my eyes, concentrating as I gave myself over to the old side of me that knew how to effectively strategise an enemy. 

It took several hours over the course of three days before I finally finished. To be safe, I only worked within small windows every day, choosing to do so between when I would get another dose of pain medication and when I would need to let myself sleep. This was something delicate and I knew I needed t o be at my most relaxed for it to work. 

By the time I was done, it was an in–depth timeline of everything since I‘d been reborn. Correlating the different events to everything I knew Thea had done, and then using those to theorise why it had been done the way it had been. Even in the moments she hadn‘t done something, I was still able to use it to better understand it all. 

… This was it. 

This was a 101 guide to Thea over the last four years 

Now I just needed to have a meeting with the others to let them know. Something I was sure Aleric would be less than pleased with considering I was meant to still be resting. 

Fuck it. 

I knew the time window was perfect. This would be my only chance until tomorrow. 

...Not to mention, that thing* had finally arrived earlier. 

And so I threw my legs over the side of the bed, getting slowly dressed into some normal clothes, and started heading towards the meeting hall. Knowing Aleric, he was probably going to be there this time of the day. 

“Where are you going?” a voice then said behind me, making me jump in surprise. 

| quickly turned around to see Brayden there, right outside my hospital room. 

“… To see Aleric,” I replied, my voice a little tense at seeing him. 

It was because of him. 

If he had just done what he was told, none of this would have happened. 

But as I looked at him more closely, I noticed how he looked exhausted. He had dark circles under his eyes and didn‘t have that normal confident air about him that used to annoy me so much. 

“You‘re not supposed to be leaving your room,” he said. “Aleric was pretty strict on that.” 

“So, you follow orders now?” | replied back a bit coldly. 

*Breathe.* 

And I sighed, clearing my head. I needed to remember that there was no reason for me to get angry now. 

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“..I‘m sorry, Arla,” he said, his face crumbling a bit 10 show how quilty he felt, “I didn‘t. I didn‘t realise. I Just wanted to stop her from getting away. If I‘d known she was going to do that 10 you, I never would have engaged in battle. I feel terrible.” 

I said. “Just.. learn and do

that, I turned around, continuing on iny way

Aria, seriously! We‘ve got this whole place on lockdown because you‘re injured. You can‘t just leave. Please. I don‘t want you to get hurt

I couldn‘t cope with this then I would still be in bed. I‘ve been stuck inside for over a week now.

just that, though begrudgingly. Going as far as to drive me himself

sure that Thea wouldn‘t publicly attack m e on my way there in broad daylight, it didn’t mean the extra

you trying to say?” I heard Aleric‘s voice speak from

rooms and found the door slightly ajar, allowing for me to hear inside.

replied, “You‘re basically using all your available people to just keep her safe right now. Clearly, Thea knows where she is o r she wouldn‘t keep sending rogue

voice then cut off abruptly

in, Aria,”

forgotten how sharp his senses

they‘d obviously been keeping from me while I was resting. And they were probably right to do so. If I‘d known we had been suffering attacks because of me, I probably

supposed to be

coming over to sit opposite them at the table. “I feel well enough

walk,” he said, staring down at all the pages of writing I was

at the inside

to know about Thea. Everything I was able to figure out. If we really are undergoing

his expression still stony, eyes narrowed. It wasn‘t as bad as it was... but he still

listen to me for a bit,” I continued. “This is going to take a while but it‘s important you all understand. The only way this works is if we start to trust each other implicitly. Any doubt or concerns

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

he was going to at least give me

conjunction with the things I‘ve learnt about Thea‘s history, to try and figure out how she operates. Luckily for us,

grabbed my pen and wrote it down on a fresh page so they could follow

wasn‘t that fortunate and had to learn how to control it due to being stuck in the collar. The most important thing to know is that these abilities are

drive helps create an atmosphere of devotion. It‘s something you probably won‘t understand completely unless you ever meet a proper God in person. Basically, it‘s like an intense pressure to give in and appease them, gravitating without even fully realising it‘s happening. A form of manipulation, even if

his gaze, realising what I

emotional I felt in that moment, the easier it was for her to weave her way in and magnify those already existing fears I had. It‘s how she eventually ended up taking over too; waiting until I was

earn me a few confused looks from both

it doesn‘t work on him in the same way

spoke up finally. “She was messing with me for months. No, actually, it was worse

Where hers is an outward focus in swaying others to see things her way, yours is more internal in how people perceive you specifically, both stemming from a manipulation in perception. She said it‘s like two magnets of the same polar, pushing away from each other. I take that to mean she convinced you of the physical effects of the mate–bond, like sparks, scent etc, opposed to you actually *feeling the attachment to her. You sort of never expressed that much interest in her emotionally when you spoke about ‘Caitlyn... something that was truthfully a bad sign from the beginning. If you are ever able to experience a mate bond one day, and I mean a *real one*, you‘ll know exactly what I mean. When that bond is formed... it‘s like nothing else, no one else. It takes over both

see Aleric staring at me

not yet. I couldn‘t jump down

means you‘re the

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bhupter Ninety–tout 

system. It‘s important to note though that this sickness

few notes down before looking up to see Cai had gone completely pale. I took that to mean that I

on at once. Cai, you mentioned to me in my office that she started leaving for longer periods of time after you started to get more ill... I‘d wager those times she was away from you would match up perfectly to when I was at

pointed out. “Fighting is pretty emotionally fuelling and so, really,

brings me to the last one... ‘distraction‘.”

a creature that can see in your

away during our fight and it was how I managed to keep her guard down. Stupidly, she admitted to me that she considered us pretty similar and, well, though I don‘t like to consider it, it did get me thinking about a few similarities we actually did share. Namely,

started writing more notes

to be pretty normal. Hardworking, dedicated to the people she cared for. She gave up her entire life just to make them happy. But when she was finally

has nothing left, what can

Both of us became blinded, unable to see clearly ahead when things turned bad. Back when Selene robbed her of her powers, she wasn‘t able to use her ability to see ahead because, in that moment, she was

our fight when she had shown her true colours; how it was a mirror image of the way

need to get her angry?”

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