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.

the

Ava. Just wake up.

1. me.

No way.

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here, in this

back. This is

should be.

this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes

Ava.

warm honey in

but my throat is parched, voice a

nose presses into my palm.

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my head slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence

Relief colors

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

want

but I’m already

***

gradually. The steady beep of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of disinfectant.

An IV pinches the back of

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

Her relief washes over me.

are here. They’re asking me questions, one talking over the

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long was I out?” I rasp, my throat raw

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close

are you feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my

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

and Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead me up until I’m sitting.

an entire process that

upright, I take stock.

IV pole with a few bags hanging off it. One of the bags looks like milk, and that one’s connected to yet another

pooled around my waist. My hair is lank and

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

happened to me?”

my skin. Warmth flows between us, a

wolf is trying to emerge. Do

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

way too big

afraid, Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural for you

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

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