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..

on iny way to where I

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

I 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 inside for over a

begrudgingly. Going as far

was pretty sure that Thea wouldn‘t publicly attack m e on my way there

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

to one of the smaller adjoined meeting rooms and found the door

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

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

Aria,” he

his senses were. Sharper

resting. And they were probably right to do so. If I‘d known

be

I replied, coming over to sit opposite them at the

than just walk,” he said, staring down at

bit at the inside of

out. If we really are undergoing attacks then this might be able to help us come up with a

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

only way this works is if we start to trust

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his expression enough to tell me he was going to at least

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,

it down on

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 the heat of battle when you‘re in high–stress situations, taking advantage of a heightened ability of strength and better senses, and... for Cai....”

completely unless you ever meet a proper God in

he instantly averted his gaze, realising what I was

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

seemed to earn me a few confused looks from both of them.

admitted to me herself that it doesn‘t work on him in the same

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

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

Aleric staring at me intensely, making my

couldn‘t jump down that rabbit hole right

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 of resisting her internal manipulations and should be able to pick up if she is influencing you in

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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 weakness; ‘distance‘.”

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

is also limited 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

then pointed out. “Fighting is pretty emotionally fuelling and so, really, that would just leave running away. Doesn‘t really help

I agreed. “Which brings me to the

against a creature that can see in your head?” Cai

she admitted to me that she considered us pretty similar and, well, though I don‘t like to consider it,

started writing more notes

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.

what can you possibly do to

of us became blinded, unable to see clearly ahead when things turned bad. Back when Selene robbed her of her powers,

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

we just need to get her angry?”

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