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 pain.

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy

to come back. This is not where

should be.

darkness. I feel

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died.

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crack open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

is warm

I try to speak but my throat is parched, voice

my palm. The slight weight

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head resting on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence and worry.

colors her

tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The

I want to protest but

but I’m

***

returns gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The

my skin. An IV pinches the back of

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

back. Her relief washes over

They’re asking me questions, one talking over the

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I rasp, my

disuse.

Selene whines softly.

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to me.

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak and

and Lucas rest their hands on my back to

that leaves

take stock. My limbs

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

waist. My hair is lank and greasy

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

of the century. I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing. A yawning black hole

happened to me?”

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

wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

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

too big

my unease.

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural.

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