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.” 

to me,” I said. “Just..

I turned around, continuing on iny way to where

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

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 week now.

that, though begrudgingly. Going as far as

Whilst I was pretty sure that Thea wouldn‘t publicly attack m e on my way there in broad daylight, it didn’t mean

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

one of the smaller adjoined meeting rooms and found the door slightly ajar, allowing for me to hear inside.

your available people to just keep her safe right now. Clearly, Thea knows where she is

off abruptly mid–sentence, followed only seconds later

in, Aria,” he

forgotten how sharp his senses were.

the pack was facing Things they‘d obviously been keeping from me while I was resting. And they were probably right to

not supposed to be

opposite them at the table.

just walk,” he said, staring down at all the pages

bit at the inside of my cheek.

able to figure 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 he still didn‘t

understand. The only way this works is if we start to trust each other implicitly. Any doubt or concerns over what the others are doing and she‘ll just use that as

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Chapter Ninety–Four 

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

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

wrote it down on a

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

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

gaze, realising what I

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 with

to earn me a few confused looks

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

messing with me for months. No, actually, it was worse than that. Thinking about it now, it was a few months

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 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

I hesitantly looked up to see Aleric staring at

down that rabbit hole

it anyway. This means you‘re the only one of us

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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 from once she left the Silver Lake... bringing me to the next weakness; ‘distance‘.”

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 by.

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

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

“Which brings me to the last one...

help against a creature that can

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

writing more notes

used to be pretty normal. Hardworking, dedicated to the people she cared for. She gave up

left, what can you possibly do

getting at. 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, she was solely focused on her revenge. She is

of the way she‘d made me

get her angry?” Cai asked

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