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.” 

said. “Just..

on iny way

this whole place on lockdown because you‘re injured. You can‘t just leave. Please. I don‘t want you to get

be in bed. I‘ve been stuck inside for over a week now. If

that, though begrudgingly. Going as far

Whilst I 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

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

scent to one of the smaller adjoined meeting rooms and

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.

wrong but–.” Aleric‘s voice then cut off abruptly mid–sentence, followed only seconds later by a disappointed sigh.

in, Aria,” he

his senses were.

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 to sit by

supposed to be here,” Aleric said.

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

like you‘ve done more than just walk,” he said, staring down at all the pages of writing

the inside of my cheek.

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

narrowed. It wasn‘t as bad as it was... but he still didn‘t trust

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

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

he was going to at least give me

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.

wrote it down on a fresh

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 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

to meet his. “An emotional drive helps create an atmosphere of devotion. It‘s something you probably won‘t understand completely unless you ever meet a proper God in

his gaze, realising what

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

a few confused looks

him in the same way it does on me…

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

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

Aleric staring at me

couldn‘t jump down that

my throat and looked back down at the pages. “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 of resisting her internal manipulations and should be able to pick up if she is influencing you in other ways.

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you feel 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

up to see Cai had gone completely pale. I took that to mean that

to me in my office that she started leaving

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

agreed. “Which brings me to

that can see in your head?” Cai asked.

our fight and it was how I managed to keep her guard down. Stupidly, she admitted to me that she considered us pretty similar

writing more notes down.

with Selene in 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

what can

when Selene robbed her

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

just need to get

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