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

no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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in this hazy place.

have to come back.

should be.

serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t kill me. It isn’t

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

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

***

They feel like sandpaper scraping against my

Ava.

is warm honey

I try to speak but my throat

presses into my palm. The slight weight

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slowly, painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue

colors her tone.

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

want to protest but exhaustion drags me

but I’m

***

a heart

rough against my skin. An IV pinches the

eyelids are heavy but I force them open. The ceiling swims into focus–white tiles, fluorescent lights.

Her relief washes over

questions, one talking over the

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

disuse.

weeks, Selene whines softly. We were

worried.

asks, way too close to

pipes up,

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

Lucas rest their hands on my back

process that leaves

I take stock. My limbs

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

gown, blankets pooled around my waist. My hair is

cautions as I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

I cast my mind back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with

to me?”

us, a feeling of comfort,

thinks your wolf is trying to emerge.

toward my wolf, disguised as a husky for a reason she has yet to explain,

She’s way too big for that.

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This is natural

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about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to be a part of

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