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

gear automatically, sprinting towards the back door where Myra was

the pace we were going, it wasn’t long before we entered into the forest. The branches and sticks tore

minute,” Clarissa then

I huffed out.

the first encounter.”

head straight, forcing my legs to keep moving.

the person off? That was going to be difficult with Clarissa on

her defensive greeting from the other day, I realised she hadn’t appeared that natural when

we maybe

get

leaves rustling quickly caught my attention, coming from somewhere to our

Clarissa had said.

yelled.

running ahead of me to lead the way, her clearly knowing the woods far

sound of my voice, she slowed down to regroup and turned to the

said, my

from the moon above through the

“Where?” she asked.

then quickly answered as a wolf leapt

“MYRA!” I screamed

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 she

Clarissa hurried

head, running to the

“We need to make sure that we’re already past the clearing by the

if we don’t get past the clearing?” I

didn’t reply.

be an answer in itself.

I’d done at the Silent

why else would a devil

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

going to make

heart dropped.

asked, panic rising

she didn’t reply, her silence incredibly

yelled. “What’s going to

just wrapped her frail arms around me a little tighter.

all she

to do

hope that she was wrong and

to be

the far distance behind us, assumedly finding the body we’d left there. They were only minutes behind us… and their numbers were large. I didn’t need

was enough to tell me that we were outnumbered.

Severely so.

Clarissa then called out.

to keep moving,” I insisted. ”

Don’t distract her.”

she didn’t

she yelled again.

came to a stop in

“What’s wrong?”

trees. They’ve been hunting in two groups and now the second

after you, Clarissa,” I said. “Let me

many. Before you’re even halfway through, the rest of their

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

interjecting with a

looked at each other, as if saying something

“Wait… what’s happening?”

walking towards the trees ahead of us. To where the ambush was waiting. The only thing

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

someone then shouted from within the forest.

your death peacefully.”

to deter Myra though.

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

“…What is she…?”

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