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.. learn and

I turned around, continuing on iny way to where I wanted

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

couldn‘t cope with this then I would still be in bed.

so he did just that, though begrudgingly. Going as far as to drive me himself

Thea wouldn‘t publicly attack m e on

speak from the other side

rooms and found the door slightly

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 and weaken your defences. It

voice then cut off abruptly mid–sentence, followed only seconds later by

Aria,” he

forgotten how sharp his senses

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

to be

at the table. “I feel well enough to

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

inside of my

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

up to Cai and saw his expression still stony, eyes narrowed. It wasn‘t as bad as it was... but he still didn‘t trust

“This 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

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

to tell me he was going to

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,

wrote it down on

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

unless you ever meet a proper God in person. Basically, it‘s like an intense pressure to give

gaze, realising what I was implying in my

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

earn me a few confused looks from both of

in the same

months. No, actually, it was worse

so yourself– you didn‘t lose your sanity like I did,” I pointed out. “She can only manipulate you on a surface level because you‘re both too similar. Where hers is an outward focus 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

Aleric staring at me intensely,

couldn‘t jump down that rabbit hole right

“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

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something you need 10 start keeping an eye out for as an early warning system. It‘s important to note though that this sickness

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

was with you full–time in the beginning, Cai, I didn‘t experience any issues with her inside my head. In fact, it was pretty 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 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 news to you about who ‘Caitlyn‘ really was. She already knew I‘d told you

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

brings me to the

against a creature that can see in

external,” | corrected. “It‘s in *hert 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 consider it, it did get me thinking about a few similarities we actually did share. Namely, her own reactions and

writing more notes

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 to make

can you

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 ahead because, in that moment,

was a mirror image of the way she‘d made me angrily react to things in the past. Seeing

we just need to get her

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