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…?

my ear, snapping me out of it. “Time

sprinting towards

forest. The branches and sticks tore at my clothing and skin, stinging me.

Clarissa

huffed out.

first

back my discomfort and kept my head straight, forcing my legs to

to fight the person off? That was going to be difficult with

day, I realised she hadn’t appeared that natural when holding the dagger.

maybe

didn’t get the question out.

snapping and leaves rustling quickly caught my attention, coming

Clarissa had said.

I yelled. “Get

ahead of me to lead the way, her clearly knowing the woods far better than me. This had

my voice, she slowed down to

is here,” I said, my eyes scanning the

moon above through the leaves. It wasn’t nearly enough

“Where?” she asked.

the question was then quickly answered as a wolf leapt towards

“MYRA!” I screamed

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

going,” Clarissa hurried once it

to the front

later. “We need to make sure that we’re already past the clearing by the time the main group

past the clearing?” I

didn’t reply.

that to be an answer in itself.

Clearly, whatever I’d done at the Silent Forest pack hadn’t been enough, leaving a trail right

why else would a devil

just as I saw the clearing up ahead, I then heard

going to make it,” she said quietly.

my heart dropped.

rising inside me. “What’s going to happen?”

didn’t reply, her silence incredibly foreboding.

“What’s going to happen?!”

arms around me a

all she said.

to

on to hope that she was wrong and things really

going to be

howls then sounded in the far distance behind us, assumedly finding the body we’d left there. They were only minutes behind us… and their numbers were large.

enough to tell me

Severely so.

then called out.

to keep moving,” I

Don’t distract her.”

didn’t listen.

she yelled again.

came to a stop

“What’s wrong?”

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

Clarissa,” I said. “Let me fight them

even halfway through, the rest of their pack shows up behind us.

“Just speak plainly, goddammit! I

said quietly, interjecting with a nod towards

other, as if saying something without speaking. Something

“Wait… what’s happening?”

of us. To where the ambush was waiting. The only thing I could

said, a large number of wolves then emerged to block our way as we approached

make this difficult, Devils,” someone then shouted from within the forest.

to your

didn’t seem to

high. Almost like a shimmer around her as the moonlight streamed down, now bright in

“…What is she…?”

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