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

gear automatically, sprinting towards

ran into the night, the crisp air holding a chill within it, and at the pace we were going, it wasn’t long before we entered into the forest.

Clarissa then said suddenly.

I huffed out. “Until

first encounter.”

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

I meant to fight the person off? That was going to be difficult with Clarissa on me. Maybe Myra was

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

we maybe

I didn’t get the

twigs snapping and leaves rustling quickly caught my attention, coming from somewhere

Clarissa had said.

yelled. “Get back!”

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

down to

my eyes scanning

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

“Where?” she asked.

then quickly answered as a wolf leapt towards us.

“MYRA!” I screamed

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 clumsily put the dog down.

Clarissa hurried once it was done.

to the front to continue leading the way.

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

don’t get past

didn’t reply.

took that to be an answer

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

why else would a devil be

saw the clearing up ahead, I then heard Clarissa’s voice behind me. Words I hadn’t

not going to make it,” she

heart dropped.

rising

reply, her

yelled. “What’s

frail arms around me

running,” was all she said.

I tried to do just that.

to hope that she was wrong and things

was going to

of 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. I didn’t need to

me that we were outnumbered.

Severely so.

Clarissa then called

moving,” I insisted. ”

Don’t distract her.”

didn’t

she yelled

stop in front, turning around to face

“What’s wrong?”

“Up ahead, behind those trees. They’ve been hunting in two groups and now the second one has caught up, cutting

after you, Clarissa,” I said. “Let me fight

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

what are you saying?!” I yelled. “Just

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

looked at each other, as if

“Wait… what’s happening?”

To where the ambush was waiting. The only thing I could do was follow behind, the sounds of howls still catching up in the distance behind us.

block our way as we approached the

then shouted

your death

to deter

she kept walking confidently, her head held high. Almost like a shimmer around her as the moonlight streamed

“…What is she…?”

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