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
will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come
1. me.
No way.
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here, in this hazy
back. This is
should be.
But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t
Ava. You’re alive.
Alive.
Alive means death-
feeling sorry for
***
eyes crack open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct.
Ava.
voice is warm honey in my mind,
I try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a ragged
my palm. The
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resting on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there,
colors her
swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?”
nuzzles into my arm. I want to protest but
name, but
***
of a heart monitor.
rough against my skin. An IV pinches the back of my
tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a
Her relief washes over
are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to
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out?” I rasp, my throat raw
disuse.
whines softly. We were
worried.
okay?” Lucas asks, way too close to me.
Lisa pipes up, from my other
news hits me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak
body against mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead
an entire process that leaves me
upright, I take stock. My limbs
hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line
gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my
cautions as I
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through a lot.
Training with
to me?”
between us, a feeling of comfort, and
your wolf is trying to emerge.
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
way too big
soothes, sensing my unease.
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been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of me
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