A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 153

Book Two – Ch.# 44

“Is that…?” I tried to ask.

But I didn’t get the question out as I heard Clarissa begin cursing next to me, doing so whilst struggling to get out of bed.

“What are you doing?” I gasped, seeing her shaking with the sheer effort required.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” she snapped. “Fucking help me up already.”

“Hey! Stop being so rude to-.”

“No!” she yelled, cutting me off. “From here on out you shut up and listen to my instructions. Now pick me up.”

“What?”

“Pick. Me. Up. Onto your back. You’ll need to carry me for this.”

Stunned, I started to help her out of bed, but couldn’t stop myself from asking another question anyway.

“What’s happening, Clarissa? Are those howls…?”

“What’s happening is that we’re going to run and get Myra,” she said, speaking as if I were a child. “Hopefully before it’s too late.”

“Too late for what?”

And she paused then for a moment, just long enough to look up and allow me to feel the full gravity of her words.

“…They’re here,” she said. “The hunt begins.”

I didn’t ask anything else after that, simply following her instruction. Something told me that I probably needed to listen to her if we were going to make it out of this.

“Myra is asleep on the couch,” she directed as I lifted her up onto my back. Her arms immediately wrapped around my shoulders to hold on. “Once we find her, we’ll only have two minutes to get out of the house.”

“How do you- Nevermind.”

And I started running down the stairs to where Myra’s tiny frame had passed out, just as Clarissa had said.

“Myra, we need to go,” Clarissa yelled.

They’ve found us. This idiot led them to our doorstep.”

“…What?” Myra mumbled, waking up. What’s going on?”

“We’re running. Come on, we don’t have much time.”

Myra’s eyes instantly became alert, the situation finally settling in. “Who?” she asked.

“Silent Forest.”

Evidently, Myra knew exactly what this meant without further explanation and nodded her head.

“Okay, let’s go.”

But I hesitated, unsure how best to leave here safely, especially noting that I had Clarissa on me.

“I have a car,” I provided. “It’s parked a few streets away. If we can make it there, I can

“No,” Clarissa cut off. “We have to go out the back and into the forest. They find us before we get to the car, not to mention it’s too easy to track.”

“They find us’…? Didn’t she mean ‘they *will * find us’?

The way she kept speaking, it was almost as if she knew what was going to happen. But that was impossible, right…?

Unless…

And Myra’s words then came to mind, listing off the different abilities of the original children.

‘…One child held the ability of strength… another with foresight….’

Foresight.

Could she really…?

RHEYNA,” Clarissa then yelled in my ear, snapping me out of

found my legs kicked into gear automatically, sprinting towards the back door where

the forest. The branches and sticks tore at my clothing and skin, stinging me. But all I could really feel right now was the adrenaline pushing me

minute,” Clarissa

minute…?” I huffed out.

first

my discomfort and kept my head

off? That was going to be difficult with Clarissa on me. Maybe Myra was

defensive greeting from the other day, I realised she hadn’t appeared that natural when holding the dagger. Perhaps I could give her Clarissa

maybe

get

my

Clarissa had said.

I yelled.

running ahead of me to lead the way, her clearly knowing the woods far better than me. This had been the place she’d grown

voice, she slowed down to regroup and turned to the direction of the noise.

I said, my eyes scanning

only light source was dim, coming from the moon above through the leaves. It wasn’t nearly enough to spot

“Where?” she asked.

quickly answered as a wolf

“MYRA!” I screamed

a second after I had and reached towards it, grabbing it by the throat mid-air. Despite her looks, she did seem to have a lot of strength in her small body. It was just her skill that was lacking in terms of actual fighting technique… as was evident in how

hurried once

nodded her head, running to the front to continue leading the

Clarissa said, a few minutes later. “We need to make sure that we’re already past the clearing by the time

past the

Clarissa didn’t reply.

to be

done, the weight of their lives on my shoulders. Because I had done this. It was my fault. Clearly, whatever I’d done at the Silent Forest pack hadn’t been enough, leaving a trail right to our location. It probably hadn’t taken long for my claim of being a Lycroft to be proven false, it then bringing

else would a devil

to keep going… keep moving… but, just as I saw the clearing up ahead, I then heard

going to make it,” she said

heart dropped.

do you mean?” I asked, panic rising inside me.

reply, her silence incredibly

I yelled. “What’s going to

her frail arms around

running,” was all she

to do

to hope that she was wrong and things really would be okay.

was going to

They were only

was enough to tell me that we were

Severely so.

then called

need to keep moving,” I insisted.

Don’t distract her.”

she didn’t

yelled

stop

“What’s wrong?”

in two groups and now the second one has caught up, cutting off our escape. We’re trapped.”

Clarissa,”

too many. Before you’re even halfway through, the rest of their pack shows up behind us. Fighting all of them takes

yelled. “Just speak plainly, goddammit! I

interjecting with a nod towards Clarissa. “I

was something in the way they looked at each other, as if saying something without speaking.

“Wait… what’s happening?”

of us. To where the ambush was waiting. The only thing I could do was follow behind, the sounds of howls still catching up in

large number of wolves then emerged to block our way as we approached the tree line. An impressive number

difficult, Devils,” someone then shouted from within the

to your death peacefully.”

to deter Myra though.

walking confidently, her head held high. Almost like a shimmer around her as the moonlight streamed down, now

“…What is she…?”

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