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

you've re-established contact," Magister Orion says, peering at my

jerks up. "What? No.

You just looked

like that," Vanessa says, sounding

despite his

I mutter, wishing I had the strength

ass. They're way too comfortable making fun of

Especially you, Ava Grey, to have a wolf outside of your body, like the Lycans of old.

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a microscope, Selene says, and I can feel

feel uncomfortable with his line of interest, because she

her by her full name? You almost always call

ushers us to the dining room as we talk. "It is a bit of a custom among the Fac. We don't have a

it's a family name, wouldn't it be a part of your identity?" I ask with a frown, as Vanessa and Marcus help

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

all delicious and-most importantly-have no

I brought it up, but I haven't told him the entire story of Sister Miriam and the Fac food. I'm still not certain on the

smile when she catches my

Magister Orion is

realizes how

vegetables onto my plate, Magister Orion finally responds to my question. "Your identity is not defined by your family. Even when one is disowned,

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 aimed right

question

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