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.” 

me,” I said. “Just.. learn and do better.”

with that, I turned around, continuing on iny

whole place on lockdown because you‘re injured. You can‘t

said calmly, turning back around to face him. “Stop If I thought I couldn‘t cope with this then I would still be in bed. I‘ve been stuck

that, though begrudgingly. Going as far

e on my way there in broad daylight, it didn’t mean the extra

to say?” I heard Aleric‘s voice speak from the other side of the meeting hall‘s door

of the smaller adjoined meeting rooms and found the door

we should consider hiding her somewhere else 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

saying you‘re wrong but–.” Aleric‘s voice then cut off abruptly mid–sentence, followed only seconds

Aria,” he finished.

sharp his senses were. Sharper than anyone

pack was facing Things they‘d obviously been keeping from me while I was resting. And they were probably right to do so. If I‘d

to be here,”

opposite them at the table. “I feel well enough to walk though.”

staring down at all the pages of writing

bit at the inside of my cheek.

able to figure out. If we really are undergoing attacks then this might be able to

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

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 she‘ll

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

he was going to at least give me

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 her weaknesses into three key components; distance, detachment, distraction.”

pen and wrote it down on a fresh page so

it due to being stuck in the collar. The most important thing to know is that these abilities are primarily powered by emotional energy. The more intense feeling you‘re experiencing, the easier it is to utilise. So, for Aleric, that would usually be in

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

his gaze, realising what

abilities originate from Thea though – *not* Selene,” I continued, turning back to the pages on the table. “So if that‘s how our 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

seemed to earn me a few confused looks

in the same way it

for months. No, actually, it was worse

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

see Aleric staring at me intensely, making my heart jump a

yet. I couldn‘t jump down that

to do it anyway. This means you‘re the only one of us who is capable of resisting her internal manipulations and should be able to pick up

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sick, something you need 10 start keeping an eye out for as an early 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 the Silver Lake... bringing me to the next

down before looking up to see Cai had gone completely pale. I took that to mean that I must have correctly figured

Cai, you mentioned to me in my office that she started leaving for longer

don‘t really help much should we find ourselves in an actual fight,” Aleric then pointed

agreed. “Which brings me to the last one... ‘distraction‘.”

will a diversion help against a creature that

her guard down. Stupidly, she admitted to me that she considered us

started writing more notes

person who showed me the entirety of our kind‘s origin,” I continued. “Rather, I saw Thea‘s origin. She used to be pretty normal. Hardworking, dedicated to the people she cared for. She gave up her entire life just

nothing left, what can you possibly do to

I‘m getting at. It‘s her own negative emotions that are her weakness to distract her, just like they were with me. 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

could still remember that moment 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 past. Seeing the comparison now had made me realise how painfully obvious her influence was.

to get her

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