A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 94

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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.” 

to me,” I said. “Just.. learn and do

turned around, continuing on iny way

injured. You can‘t just leave. Please. I don‘t want

thought I couldn‘t cope with this then I would still be in bed. I‘ve been stuck

as far as to drive

pretty sure that Thea wouldn‘t publicly attack m e on my way there in broad daylight,

are you trying to say?” I heard Aleric‘s voice speak from the other side of the

his scent to one of the smaller adjoined meeting rooms and found the door slightly ajar, allowing for

Clearly, Thea knows where she is o r she wouldn‘t keep

voice then cut off abruptly mid–sentence, followed

in, Aria,” he finished.

his senses were. Sharper than anyone

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 wouldn‘t have been able to sit by as idly as I had been.

supposed to be here,”

coming over to sit opposite them at the

done more than just walk,” he said, staring down at all the pages of writing I

the inside of

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

narrowed. It wasn‘t as bad as it was... but

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

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exhaled, softening his expression enough to tell me he was going

Thea‘s history, to try and figure out how she operates. Luckily for us, she unintentionally told

pen and wrote it down on a fresh page so they

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 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

back up 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 person. Basically, it‘s like an intense pressure

averted his gaze, realising what I was

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

few confused looks from both of them.

me herself that it doesn‘t work on him in the same way it does on me… or, if looking at the previous timeline,

right,” Cai spoke up finally. “She was messing with me for months. No, actually, it was worse than that. Thinking about it now, it was a few months short of a

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

Aleric staring at me intensely, making my heart jump

couldn‘t jump 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

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eye out for as an early warning system. It‘s important to note though that this sickness was something you were

mean that I must have correctly figured out his questionable commitment to Caitlyn perfectly, if his reaction was anything to go by.

and, possibly, is also limited in how many she can focus on at once. Cai, you mentioned to me in my office that she started leaving

tactics but don‘t really help much should we find ourselves in an actual fight,” Aleric then pointed out. “Fighting

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

creature that can see in your head?”

head. This one was something she gave 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

started writing more

normal. Hardworking, dedicated to the people she cared for. She gave up her

left, what can you possibly do to

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 ahead because, in that moment, she was solely focused on her revenge. She is her own worst enemy, not to mention arrogant with

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

to get her

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