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.” 

me,” I said. “Just..

continuing on iny way to where I wanted

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

If I thought I 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

Going as far as to drive me himself with several

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

heard Aleric‘s voice speak from the other

smaller adjoined meeting rooms and found

“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

not saying you‘re wrong but–.” Aleric‘s voice then cut off abruptly mid–sentence, followed only seconds later by

in, Aria,” he finished.

senses were. Sharper than anyone else‘s.

entered, finding the two of them alone as they discussed the current issues the 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 known we had been suffering attacks because of me, I probably wouldn‘t have been able to sit by as idly as I had

supposed to be

to sit opposite them at the table.

just walk,” he said, staring down at

at the inside of my

This is... everything you need to know about Thea. Everything I was able to figure out. If we really are undergoing attacks then this might be

narrowed. It wasn‘t as bad as it

but it‘s important you all understand. The only way this works is if we start to trust each other implicitly. Any doubt or

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

to tell me he was going to

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

my pen and wrote it down on a fresh page

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,

“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

realising what I was implying

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

seemed to earn me a few

me herself that it doesn‘t work on him in the same way it does on me…

can‘t be 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

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

looked up to see Aleric staring at me intensely, making my

not yet. I couldn‘t jump down

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

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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

wrote the 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 his questionable commitment to Caitlyn perfectly, if his reaction was anything to go

much dead silent and I felt in control for the most part... with one exception; when we met up during what was meant to be my escape. This tells me she is probably limited to a certain range 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 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

really help much should we find ourselves in an actual fight,” Aleric then pointed out. “Fighting is

me to the last one... ‘distraction‘.”

diversion help against a creature that can see in

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 consider it, it did get me thinking about a

started writing more notes

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 catch her

Back when Selene robbed her

mirror image of the way she‘d made me angrily react to things in the past. Seeing the comparison now had made me realise

we just need to get her angry?” Cai asked sceptically

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