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

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy

have to come back.

should be.

I feel pain,

won’t die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

that’s enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry

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my lids. Everything

Ava.

is warm honey in

throat is parched, voice a ragged whisper.

presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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

Relief colors

and thick. “What happened?” The words scrape

I want

but I’m already

***

a heart monitor. The chemical

my skin. An IV pinches the back of my hand.

heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A

back. Her relief

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

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I rasp, my throat

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were so

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way

Lisa pipes up, from

a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit

mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my

entire process that leaves

upright, I take stock. My limbs feel

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

my waist. My hair is

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

century. I 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 memory.

to

his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into his hand, nuzzling

for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

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

way too big for that.

my unease. This is

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my life has been natural. Is Vanessa

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