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.

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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.

will be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

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No way.

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peaceful here, in this

back. This is not where

should be.

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

die, Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

against my lids. Everything is blurry,

Ava.

voice is warm honey in

my throat is parched, voice a ragged

nose presses into my

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She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence

Relief colors her tone.

and thick. “What happened?”

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

my name, but

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The

my skin. An IV pinches

heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up

Her relief washes over

one talking over the other. It’s painful to

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long was I out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

asks, way too close to

pipes up, from my other side.

me like a punch to the gut. I struggle to sit up, my

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

entire process that leaves

I take stock. My limbs feel stiff,

the bags looks like milk,

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

Selene cautions as I

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through a lot.

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

happened to me?”

my skin. Warmth flows between us, a

Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel

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

too big

sensing my unease. This is

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is

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