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.
feel a little better. Like having a parent who's panicked after they wake up in the middle of the night to see their child gone; someone who cares about me. I need food. And sleep, I tell
contact," Magister Orion says, peering at my face. "Does it hurt to speak with
"What? No. Why
sorry. You just
like that,"
despite his
wishing I had the strength to shove the
too comfortable making fun of me for such a
time. I'd love to pick it apart. Especially you, Ava Grey, to have a wolf
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he's going to slice me open and look at me under a microscope, Selene says, and I
his line of interest, because she interrupts him to
You almost always call her 'Ava Grey, not
"It is a bit of a custom among the Fac. We don't have a first and last name as you humans do, you see. We do have a family
Vanessa and Marcus help settle me into
cuts of meat. I've learned since coming here that Fac 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 beast that they hunt, or an herbivore similar
delicious and-most importantly-have no magic
Miriam and the Fac food. I'm still not certain on the allegiances
smile when she catches my eye. Everything
Orion is
realizes how
onto my plate, Magister Orion finally responds to my question. "Your identity is not defined by your family. Even when one is disowned, they remain true to their own sense of self, do they
through my heart, 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 been put on display for a moment, a spotlight
question makes
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