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

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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peaceful here, in this hazy place.

back. This

should be.

this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake.

***

sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

warm

Grounding. I try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper.

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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She’s

Relief colors

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape out.

want to protest but

my name, but I’m already gone.

***

steady beep of a

my skin. An IV pinches the back

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

Her relief washes over me.

here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s

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I out?” I

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

asks, way

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

weeks. The news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles

her body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on

process that leaves

stock. My limbs feel

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 connected to yet another IV line in the elbow of my

a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing.

to me?”

us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge.

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

She’s way too big

soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be

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