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 up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy

back. This is not where

should be.

me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain,

die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself. You never died.

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

Ava.

voice is warm honey in

throat is parched,

my palm. The

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head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes

colors her tone.

dryly, my tongue heavy and thick.

nuzzles into my arm. I want

my name, but I’m already

***

a heart monitor. The chemical scent

my skin. An IV

focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights.

back. Her relief washes over

questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my ears.

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was I out?” I

disuse.

softly. We

worried.

you okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up,

body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead

that

I take stock.

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.

my waist. My

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

the 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.

happened to me?”

for my face, his fingers hesitant and gentle against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort,

your wolf is trying to emerge.

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

way too big

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for

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on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to

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