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

Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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in this

have to come back. This is not

should be.

place for me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t

won’t die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

Wake up. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake.

***

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

Ava.

Her voice is warm

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

my palm.

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She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes

Relief colors her

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What

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

but I’m

***

beep of a heart monitor. The chemical

my skin. An IV pinches the back of

ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene

Her relief washes over

questions, one talking

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out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were so

worried.

okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from

hits me like a punch to the gut.

Lisa and Lucas rest their

an entire process that leaves

I take stock. My

One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet

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

Selene cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training

happened to

flows between us, a feeling of

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is

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

She’s way too big

my unease.

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ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me

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