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…?

ear, snapping me out of it.

automatically, sprinting towards the back door where Myra was heading.

into the forest. The branches and sticks tore at

minute,” Clarissa

I huffed out. “Until

the first encounter.”

head straight, forcing my legs to

That was going to be difficult

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

maybe swap-.”

get the

quickly caught my attention, coming from somewhere to our left.

Clarissa had said.

I yelled.

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

slowed down to regroup and turned to the direction

I said, my eyes scanning

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

“Where?” she asked.

the question was then quickly answered as a wolf leapt towards us.

“MYRA!” I screamed

throat mid-air. Despite her looks, she did seem to have a lot of strength in

to keep going,” Clarissa hurried once

to the front to continue leading the way.

“We need to make sure that we’re already

we don’t get past

Clarissa didn’t reply.

be an answer

Putting more into this than anything else I’d ever 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

else would a

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

going to make it,” she said quietly.

my heart

mean?” I asked, panic rising inside me.

she didn’t reply, her silence incredibly

I yelled. “What’s going to

wrapped her frail arms around me

running,” was all she said.

to

hope that she was wrong and

was going to be fine.

They were only minutes behind us… and their numbers were

was enough to tell me that

Severely so.

Clarissa then called out.

to keep moving,” I insisted. ”

Don’t distract her.”

she didn’t

she yelled

a stop in front, turning around

“What’s wrong?”

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

then… Myra can look after you, Clarissa,” I said. “Let me fight them

Before you’re even halfway through, the rest of their pack shows up behind us. Fighting

“Just speak

quietly, interjecting with a nod

other, as if saying something without

“Wait… what’s happening?”

everyone seemed to 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 follow behind, the sounds of howls still

Clarissa had said, a large number of wolves then emerged to block our way as we approached the tree line. An impressive number

Devils,” someone then

to your death peacefully.”

to deter

a shimmer around her as the moonlight streamed down, now bright in the open space of

“…What is she…?”

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