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.

pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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Ava:

peaceful here, in this

have to come back. This is not where you

should be.

darkness. I feel pain, but it

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

enough. Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for

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open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything

Ava.

voice is warm honey

throat is parched,

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

awake. Relief colors her

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

arm. I want to protest but

but I’m

***

steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

sheets rough against my skin. An IV pinches

into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A

Her relief

They’re asking me questions, one

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was I out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We were so

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to me.

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

a punch to the

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

process that leaves

I take stock. My limbs

A needle pinches 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 yet another IV line in the elbow of my other arm.

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

I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on the couch. Then… nothing.

happened to me?”

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

is

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

She’s way too big

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for you

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has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to

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