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…?

then yelled in my ear, snapping me out of it. “Time to

sprinting towards the back door where Myra

entered into the forest. The branches and sticks tore at my clothing and skin, stinging me. But all I could

minute,” Clarissa

huffed out.

first

swallowed back my discomfort and kept my head straight, forcing my legs to keep moving.

was going to be difficult with Clarissa on me. Maybe Myra was stronger than she looked?

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

we maybe swap-.”

I didn’t get the

sound of twigs snapping and leaves rustling quickly caught my attention, coming from somewhere to our left. Just

Clarissa had said.

I yelled.

clearly knowing the woods far better than me. This had been the place she’d

down to regroup and turned to

I said, my eyes scanning the

the leaves. It wasn’t nearly enough to spot anything through the thick

“Where?” she asked.

the question was then quickly answered as

“MYRA!” I screamed

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

Clarissa hurried once

her head, running to the front to continue leading

need to make sure that we’re

we don’t get past

didn’t reply.

to be an answer

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

would a devil be

just as I saw the clearing up ahead, I then heard Clarissa’s voice

make it,” she said quietly.

my heart

panic rising inside me. “What’s

her

I yelled. “What’s going to

she just wrapped her frail arms around me a

all

tried to

she was wrong

going to be fine.

left there. They were only minutes behind us… and their numbers were large. I didn’t need to see it for myself, the noise

enough to tell me that

Severely so.

Clarissa then called

keep moving,” I insisted.

Don’t distract her.”

she didn’t

yelled again.

a stop in front, turning around

“What’s wrong?”

groups and now

Clarissa,” I said. “Let me

rest of their pack shows up

what are you saying?!” I yelled. “Just speak plainly, goddammit! I don’t know-.”

Myra said quietly, interjecting with a nod towards Clarissa. “I

was something in the way they looked at each other, as if saying something without speaking. Something I wasn’t

“Wait… what’s happening?”

ignore me as Myra began walking towards the trees ahead of us. To where the ambush was waiting. The only thing I could do was

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

this difficult, Devils,” someone then shouted from

to your death

to

she kept walking confidently, her head held high. Almost like a shimmer around her

“…What is she…?”

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