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.

remember the pain.

Ava. Just wake up. Come

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.

serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry for yourself.

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything

Ava.

is warm honey in my mind,

throat is parched, voice a ragged

into my palm. The slight

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turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there,

awake. Relief colors her tone.

and thick. “What

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags

name, but I’m already gone.

***

steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches the

I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me,

Her relief washes over me.

Lisa are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other.

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I

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close

Lisa pipes up, from my other

me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit

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

that leaves

upright, I take stock. My

A needle pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s

hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair

as I

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through a lot.

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 in my

happened to me?”

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

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying

I yearned to shift, 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,

She’s way too big for that.

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is

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ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is

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