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…?

my ear, snapping

legs kicked into gear automatically, sprinting towards the back door

into the forest. The branches and sticks tore at my clothing and

minute,” Clarissa then said

minute…?” I huffed out.

the first

head straight, forcing my legs to

be difficult with Clarissa on me. Maybe Myra

hadn’t appeared that natural when holding the dagger. Perhaps I could give her Clarissa to

we maybe swap-.”

didn’t get

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

Clarissa had said.

I yelled. “Get

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

down to regroup and turned to the direction of

said, my

was dim, coming from the moon above through the leaves. It

“Where?” she asked.

was then quickly answered as a wolf

“MYRA!” I screamed

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

to keep going,” Clarissa hurried once

her head, running to the front to

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

if we don’t get past the clearing?”

Clarissa didn’t

took that to be an answer in itself.

I pushed my body to move. 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

why else would a devil be heading

keep moving… but, just as I saw the clearing up ahead, I then heard Clarissa’s voice behind me. Words I hadn’t wanted to hear.

not going to make it,” she said

heart

asked, panic rising inside me. “What’s

reply, her

yelled. “What’s

wrapped her frail arms around me a little tighter.

all

tried to

hope that she was wrong and things really would be

everything was going to be fine. …Right?

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 see it

enough to tell me that

Severely so.

then called out.

to keep moving,” I

Don’t distract her.”

didn’t listen.

she yelled

watched as Myra came to a stop in front, turning

“What’s wrong?”

groups and now

can look after you, Clarissa,” I said. “Let

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

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

quietly, interjecting with a

way they looked at each other, as if saying something without speaking.

“Wait… what’s happening?”

where the ambush was waiting. The only thing I

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

make this difficult, Devils,” someone then shouted

your

didn’t seem to deter

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

“…What is she…?”

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