Tangled

Chapter 112

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.

1. up.

What’s that?

… Ava, you…

Who’s that?

can you hear me?

I struggle to reach the voice that calls me,

but

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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.

the

Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy place.

you have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

place for me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White. Harsh

Ava.

Her voice is warm

I try to speak but my throat is parched,

nose presses into my palm.

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head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes

awake. Relief colors her tone.

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

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

name, but

***

a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

my skin. An IV pinches the

them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled

back. Her relief

They’re asking me questions, one talking over the

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long was I out?” I rasp,

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly.

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close to

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak

against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until I’m sitting.

process that leaves

stock. My limbs

pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in

my waist.

Selene cautions as I waver,

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through a lot.

to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black

happened to me?”

reaches for my face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort,

know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

run beneath the moon. To be 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 has yet to explain, and her ears flick as she licks my face, settling into my lap as though she’s a lap

way too big

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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been natural. Is Vanessa

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