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 it.

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

and at the pace we were going, it wasn’t long before we entered into the forest. The branches and sticks tore at my clothing and skin, stinging me. But all I could really feel right

Clarissa then said

minute…?” I huffed

the first

my head straight, forcing my legs

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

defensive greeting from the other day, I realised she hadn’t appeared

we maybe

get the

and leaves rustling quickly caught my attention, coming from somewhere to our left. Just as

Clarissa had said.

yelled. “Get

lead the way, her clearly knowing the woods far better than me. This

slowed down to regroup and turned to the direction of the

said, my eyes scanning the

dim, coming from the moon above through the leaves. It wasn’t nearly enough to

“Where?” she asked.

the question was then quickly answered as a wolf leapt

“MYRA!” I screamed

grabbing it by the throat mid-air. Despite her looks, she did seem to have a lot of strength in her small body.

to keep going,” Clarissa hurried

quickly nodded her head, running to the front to continue

few minutes later. “We need to make sure that we’re already

we don’t get past the clearing?” I asked.

didn’t

to be an answer in

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 a

why else would a

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

to make it,” she said quietly.

my heart

mean?” I asked, panic rising

she didn’t reply, her silence incredibly

I yelled. “What’s going to

wrapped her frail arms

all

I tried to do just that.

on to hope that she was wrong and things

to be fine.

body we’d left there. They were only minutes behind

me that we were outnumbered.

Severely so.

Clarissa then called out.

to keep moving,”

Don’t distract her.”

didn’t listen.

yelled again.

came to a stop

“What’s wrong?”

trees. They’ve been hunting in two groups and now the second one has caught up, cutting off our

look after you, Clarissa,”

through, the rest of their pack shows up behind us. Fighting all of them

saying?!” I yelled. “Just speak plainly, goddammit!

said quietly, interjecting with a nod

other, as if

“Wait… what’s happening?”

was waiting. The only thing I could do was follow

as we approached the tree line. An

then shouted

to your death peacefully.”

seem to deter

her as the moonlight streamed down, now bright

“…What is she…?”

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