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.

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 her.

Orion says, peering at my face. "Does it hurt to

jerks up. "What?

I'm sorry. You just

like that," Vanessa

despite his

I had the strength

way too comfortable making fun of me for

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.

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microscope, Selene says, and I can feel

must feel uncomfortable with his line of interest, because

full name? You almost always call her 'Ava

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 name, but it isn't

part of your identity?" I ask 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 plates of steaming

the ones we are used to in our world; for example, their steaks might be

importantly-have no magic in them

story of Sister Miriam and the Fac food. I'm still not certain on the allegiances of people

without being asked, and I give her a smile when she catches my eye. Everything on the table

Magister Orion

how

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

my family dynamics, but

his question makes

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