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.

Ava. Just wake up. Come back

1. me.

No way.

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in

have to come back. This is

should be.

me? But I’m here, in this serenity of darkness. I feel pain, but it doesn’t

won’t die, Ava.

Alive.

Alive means death-

sorry for yourself.

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feel like sandpaper scraping against my lids.

Ava.

warm honey in my mind,

try to speak but my throat is parched, voice a

presses into my palm. The slight weight of

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

Relief colors her tone.

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

into my arm. I want to protest but exhaustion drags

my name, but

***

of a heart monitor. The chemical scent of

against my skin. An IV pinches the back of my hand.

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

Her relief washes over

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

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I out?” I

disuse.

whines softly. We

worried.

Lucas asks, way too close to

feeling?” Lisa pipes up, from my other side.

like a punch to the

Lucas rest their hands on my back to lead

that leaves

upright, I take stock. My limbs

a few bags hanging off 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.

waist. My hair is lank and greasy against my neck.

I waver, dizzy.

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through a lot.

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

happened to me?”

against my skin. Warmth flows between us, a feeling of comfort,

don’t know for sure. Vanessa thinks your wolf is trying to emerge. Do you feel any different?”

so long, I 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

not. She’s way too

Selene soothes, sensing my unease. This

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about my life has been

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