Tangled

Chapter 237

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237 Ava: Wrung Dry

By the time we exit the training room, Vanessa and Marcus have to hold me up to walk in a straight line. <

It isn't the type of exhaustion where my muscles are sore and stretched and tired after running or doing a thousand squats. It's more like the energy in my body has bled away, leaving me so weak that my muscles can no longer function properly.

When exercising, you can kind of feel good about your exertion. The pain and exhaustion comes with a sense of accomplishment.

This?

It just feels like I'm a wet dish rag wrung out one too many times.

The water's gone, and now I'm going to float away on the next strong breeze.

Ava! Where did you go?

Selene's panic is so explosive in my head that my legs buckle, even with the support of two shifters.

Long story. Training room. Magic place. My body's dead. Training sucks.

Even in my head, I can only speak in short sentences. It feels fuzzy and also like something's slamming into it with a sledgehammer, fueled by the rage of a thousand flying monkeys.

Not sure where the flying monkeys came from, but I'm just going to go with it.

Are you okay? she asks, and the warmth and care from her side of the bond also seems to infuse me with a little bit of extra energy.

up in the middle of the night to see their child gone; someone who cares about me. I need food. And sleep, I

re-established contact," Magister Orion says, peering at

"What? No. Why

sorry. You

looks like that," Vanessa says, sounding

nods, despite

for not having years of experience, I mutter, wishing I had the strength to shove the

They're way too comfortable making fun of

is unique, indeed. If I had the time. I'd love to pick it apart. Especially you, Ava Grey, to have a wolf outside of your body, like the Lycans of old. And vest

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feel like he's going to slice me open and look at me under a microscope, Selene says,

uncomfortable with his line of interest, because she interrupts him to ask, "Why

her full name? You almost always call her 'Ava

among the Fac. We don't have a first and last name as you humans do, you see. We do have

with a frown, as Vanessa and Marcus help settle me into a chair. With a wave of his hand, Magister Orion manifests into creation several

food doesn't always have a particular corresponding animal to the ones we are used to in our world; for example, their steaks might be from a giant carnivorous

delicious and-most importantly-have

food. I'm still not certain on the allegiances of people in this city, and I'm hesitant to get Sister Miriam in trouble for possibly going outside of some sort of law against

give her a smile when she catches my eye. Everything on the table is food

Orion is

realizes how

onto my plate, Magister Orion finally responds to my question. "Your identity is not

interrupting its normal rhythm for a moment. There's no way he's talking about my family dynamics, but I still feel like I've

his question makes

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