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.

Just wake up. Come back to

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this hazy place.

have to come back. This is not where

should be.

here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but

Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself. You

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feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids. Everything is

Ava.

Her voice is warm

my throat

into my palm.

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turn my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining,

awake. Relief colors her tone.

swallow dryly, my tongue heavy and thick. “What happened?” The

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion

calling my name, but I’m already gone.

***

The steady beep of a heart

sheets rough against my skin. An IV

focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights. A hospital. Selene is curled up beside me, a comforting warmth.

back. Her relief

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

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I out?” I rasp,

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were so

worried.

way

you feeling?” Lisa pipes up,

a punch to the

mine, and both Lisa and Lucas rest their

an entire process that leaves me exhausted.

stock.

it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another IV line in the

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

cautions as I waver, dizzy. You’ve been

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through a lot.

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

happened to me?”

between us, a

your wolf is trying

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 as a husky for a reason she has yet to explain, and her ears flick as she licks

She’s way too big for that.

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my

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like 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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