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

be no pain, Ava. Just wake up. Come

1. me.

No way.

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in

back. This is not where

should be.

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

Ava. You’re alive.

Alive.

Alive means death-

feeling sorry

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against my lids. Everything is blurry, shapes indistinct. White.

Ava.

warm honey

speak but my throat is

into my palm. The slight

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painfully. She’s there, silver fur shining, blue eyes bright with intelligence and worry.

awake. Relief colors her tone.

my tongue heavy and thick. “What

my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags me

my name, but I’m

***

a heart monitor. The chemical

my skin. An IV pinches the back

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

back. Her relief washes over

questions, one talking over the other. It’s painful to

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I out?” I rasp, my throat

disuse.

softly. We were

worried.

Lucas asks, way too

Lisa pipes up,

a punch to the gut. I

both Lisa and Lucas rest their hands on

an entire process that leaves me exhausted.

stock. My

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

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

as I waver, dizzy. You’ve

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through a lot.

back, trying to piece together how I ended up here. Training with Jericho and Lisa. Collapsing on

happened to

Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort, and

is trying to emerge. Do you

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, settling

She’s way too big for that.

sensing my unease. This is natural for you

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my tongue. Nothing about my life has been natural. Is Vanessa right? Are you going to

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