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

1. me.

No way.

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here, in

come back. This is not where

should be.

of darkness. I feel pain,

die, Ava. You’re

Alive.

Alive means death-

Stop feeling sorry for yourself. You never died. Wake. Up!

***

open. They feel like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

voice is warm honey in my mind,

my throat is parched, voice a

nose presses into my

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head resting on my hand. I turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver

colors

heavy and thick. “What happened?” The words

arm. I want to protest but

my name, but I’m

***

The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent

my skin. An IV

open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside

Her relief

are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to my

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I

disuse.

Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my muscles weak

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

entire process that leaves me

I take stock. My limbs feel

few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and

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

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

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through a lot.

how I ended up here. Training with

happened to

between us, a feeling of comfort, and the urge to press my cheek into his hand, nuzzling close.

sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge.

so long, I 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

way too big for that.

my unease. This is natural for

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tastes like ashes on my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is

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