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

1. me.

No way.

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in

you have to come back. This is not

should be.

I feel pain, but it doesn’t

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry for yourself. You never

***

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

Ava.

is warm honey

throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper. “Selene?”

nose presses into my

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

colors her

my tongue heavy and thick.

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

my name, but

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor.

skin. An IV pinches the back of my

focus–white tiles, fluorescent

Her relief washes over me.

me questions, one talking over the

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I out?” I rasp,

disuse.

softly. We were

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way

feeling?” Lisa pipes

news hits me like a punch to the

and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back

process that leaves

upright, I take stock. My limbs

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 arm.

pooled around my waist. My hair

as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and

to me?”

and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the

wolf is trying to emerge. Do you

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

not. She’s way too big for that.

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease.

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has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going

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