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…?

snapping me out of it.

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

we entered into the forest. The branches and sticks tore at my clothing and skin, stinging

one minute,” Clarissa then

huffed out.

the first

head straight, forcing

fight the person off? That was going to be

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

we maybe

get the question

sound of twigs snapping and leaves rustling quickly caught my attention, coming from somewhere to our

Clarissa had said.

I yelled. “Get back!”

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

voice, she slowed down to regroup and turned to the direction of the noise.

I said, my eyes scanning the

moon above through the

“Where?” she asked.

then quickly answered

“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. 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.

to keep going,” Clarissa hurried once it was

to the front to continue

Clarissa said, a 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 the clearing?” I

Clarissa didn’t

took that to be an

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 revelation from Ashwood that a devil was

would a devil be

moving… but, just as I saw the clearing up ahead, I then heard Clarissa’s voice behind me.

to make it,” she

heart dropped.

do you mean?” I asked, panic rising inside me. “What’s

didn’t reply, her

yelled. “What’s going to

she just wrapped her frail arms around me a

all she

tried to

wrong

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 for myself, the

tell me that we

Severely so.

Clarissa then called out.

moving,”

Don’t distract her.”

she didn’t listen.

yelled

as Myra came to a 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

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

the rest of their pack shows up behind us. Fighting

yelled. “Just speak plainly, goddammit! I

quietly, interjecting with a nod

was something in the way they looked at each other, as if

“Wait… what’s happening?”

To where the ambush was waiting. The only

wolves then emerged to block our way as we approached the tree line. An impressive number that must have been at least

someone then shouted from within

to your

didn’t seem to deter

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

“…What is she…?”

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