Chapter 112 Ava: Waking Up

Darkness.

Light.

So cold.

It burns.

My lungs ache.

Something's holding me down.

There are whispers. Prayers, I think.

Chaos reigns in this hazy world. Something beeps incessantly.

I'm sweating. My hands are too warm.

… up.

What's that?

… Ava, you…

Who's that?

… can you hear me?

I struggle to reach the voice that calls me, but something sucks me away again.

Frustration simmers, but I'm too tired to fight it.

Ava, you have to wake up.

There it is again.

I know you can hear me, because I can finally hear you.

Hear me? Hear me what? Am I talking?

Yes.

No, I don't think I'm talking. I'm too tired. My body is crushed beneath the earth. Fire ate every last bit of me. I drowned. The air was sucked away.

You're alive. You're asleep in the hospital. You're just fine. You just need to wake up.

No, no.

No, no, no.

Waking is pain.

I remember the pain.

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

No way.

peaceful here, in

back. This is not where you should

But I'm here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn't

die,

Alive.

Alive means death—

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never

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scraping against

Ava.

warm honey in my mind, comforting. Grounding. I try to speak but my throat is parched,

my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She's

Relief

my tongue heavy and thick. "What happened?" The

nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags

my name, but

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a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant. Starched sheets rough against my skin. An IV

open. The ceiling swims into focus—white tiles, fluorescent

Her relief washes

me questions, one talking over the

I rasp,

whines softly.

you okay?" Lucas asks, way too close

Lisa pipes up, from my other

punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and uncooperative. Selene helps, bracing her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

process that leaves me

limbs feel stiff, atrophied. A needle pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like

waist. My hair is lank and greasy

Selene cautions as I waver,

I ended up here. Training with Jericho

black hole

"What happened to me?"

gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel any

whole. But now, with all the strangeness surrounding my heritage, the idea fills me with trepidation. I flick a glance toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason

She's way too big

sensing my

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