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, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

you have to come back.

should be.

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

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry

***

feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.

Ava.

voice is warm honey in

to speak but my throat is parched,

my

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

awake. Relief colors her

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

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest

but I’m

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

IV pinches the

into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled

back. Her relief washes over

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

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long was I out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

asks, way too close

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other side.

hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up,

Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up

process that leaves me exhausted.

upright, I take 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 other

around my waist. My hair is lank

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us,

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

long, 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, settling into my lap as though she’s a lap

too big

be afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of

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