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

iny

lockdown because you‘re injured. You can‘t just leave. Please. I don‘t want you to get hurt again

couldn‘t cope with this then I would still be in bed. I‘ve been stuck inside for over a week now. If you‘re so scared of Aleríc, just accompany me to the meeting

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

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

say?” I heard Aleric‘s voice speak from the

meeting rooms and found the door slightly ajar, allowing for

for a while,” Cai‘s voice then 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 attacks along the border to split your people and weaken your defences. It won‘t be long before you‘re

then cut off abruptly mid–sentence, followed

Aria,” he

sharp his senses were. Sharper than anyone

resting. And they were probably right to do so. If I‘d known we had been suffering attacks because of me, I probably wouldn‘t have been able

not supposed to be here,” Aleric said.

I replied, coming over to sit opposite them at

down at all the pages of writing

at the inside

I was able to figure out. If we really are

stony, eyes narrowed. It wasn‘t as bad as it was... but he still didn‘t trust me. Fair

to sit and 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 over what the others are doing and

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

enough to tell me he was going to at least give me that

is a timeline of everything,” I started, laying out the pages in front of me. “I‘ve used the events I‘ve experienced in this lifetime in conjunction with the things I‘ve learnt about Thea‘s history, to try and figure out how she operates. Luckily for us, she unintentionally told me more than she probably should have. I‘ve broken up

pen and wrote it down on

tell you about the abilities themselves,” I said. “You two probably have never tried to figure it out since you‘ve just let it flow naturally. I, on the other hand, 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

unless you ever meet a proper God in person. Basically, it‘s like

realising what I was

abilities work, it‘s logical to assume that it‘s also how hers work too. Which brings me to the first of her weaknesses – ‘detachment‘. All of her moves against me since the beginning were solely aimed at triggering a negative reaction. Because the more 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 completely at rock bottom so I would give in to everything she was saying. Detaching yourself and reducing those spikes in emotional changes will help with keeping her out. The only one of us who doesn‘t need to

a few confused looks from

work on him in the same way it does on me… or, if looking at the previous

was worse than

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

Aleric staring at me intensely, making my heart

I couldn‘t jump down that rabbit hole right

“The whole thing ended with you just getting sick from her trying to do it anyway. This means you‘re the only one of us who is capable

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warning system. It‘s important to note though that this sickness was something you were only able t o start recovering from once she left

to mean that I must have correctly figured out his questionable commitment to Caitlyn perfectly, if his

in how many she can focus 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 my worst, moments that took place after I‘d turned eighteen when she was required to be here more. I‘d also guess she never returned to the Silver Lake after I broke the news to you about who ‘Caitlyn‘ really was. She already knew I‘d told you because she would have seen it from me.”

are good defensive tactics but don‘t really help much should we find ourselves in an actual fight,” Aleric then pointed out. “Fighting is pretty emotionally fuelling and so, really, that would just leave running away. Doesn‘t really help to defeat her.”

agreed. “Which brings me to the last one...

that can see in your head?” Cai asked.

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, her own reactions and

started writing more notes down.

Thea‘s origin. She used to be pretty normal. Hardworking, dedicated to the people she cared for. She gave up her entire life

can you possibly do to

when Selene robbed her of her powers, she

in our fight when she had shown her true colours; how it was a mirror image of the way she‘d made me angrily react to things in the

to get her

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