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.

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

have to come back. This is

should be.

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

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

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my lids.

Ava.

Her voice is warm honey in my mind,

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

presses into my palm. The

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

Relief colors her tone.

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

now. She nuzzles into my arm. I want

name, but I’m

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart

An IV pinches the back of

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

relief washes over me.

asking me questions, one talking over the

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I out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

softly.

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way

Lisa pipes up, from my other

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

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

an entire process that leaves me exhausted.

take stock. My limbs feel

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

my waist. My hair is

Selene cautions as I waver,

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through a lot.

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

to me?”

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

your wolf is

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

not. She’s way too big for that.

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you

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