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

be no pain, Ava. Just wake

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy

have to come back. This is

should be.

I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t enough to kill me.

won’t die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry for yourself. You

***

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

Ava.

is warm

throat

wet nose presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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

colors her

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

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

but I’m

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches

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

back. Her relief washes

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

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I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

way

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

the gut. I struggle to

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

that leaves

stock. My limbs feel

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

around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my

as I waver,

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through a lot.

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

to

my face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us,

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to

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

not. She’s way too big

sensing my

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been natural. Is

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