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

Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

you have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

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

Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You

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my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White. Harsh

Ava.

warm honey

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

my palm. The slight weight of

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

colors

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

nuzzles into my arm. I want to

but I’m already gone.

***

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

my skin. An IV

The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up

back. Her relief

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.

Selene whines softly.

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak

both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until I’m sitting.

process that

upright, I take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

needle pinches my hand, connected to an IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like

in a hospital gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

century. I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training

happened to me?”

us, a feeling

wolf is trying to emerge.

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

not. She’s way too

soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for you

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my life has been natural. Is Vanessa

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