Tangled

Chapter 261

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261 Ava: Yanking At Her

It's almost like a presence saying hello.

Thinking of that little string, I tug back. Twice.

An answering jerk. One. Two. Three

The words I just spoke drift into my head: It's like the book is alive.

it crazy to talk into this void in my head, in the general direction I hope the book is in?

Sure. But at least no one can see or hear me doing it.

Hello? I call out, trying to

there?

Use the same mental channel I use to speak with Selene. Are you

Another tug on that string.

I really, really need you to come to where I am. It's safer here. Or something. How do you explain. to a book that the world has gone to shit and you want to keep it from being used to create further catastrophe?

Please.

Being polite never hurts.

This time, that string-y feeling yanks, and it feels like my heart is constricted, interfering in its ability to beat.

I can't breathe. Pain explodes in my chest, radiating outward like a supernova. My lungs burn, desperate for air that won't come. The world around me blurs, sounds fading into a high-pitched buzz that fills my

cars.

An eternity compressed into a

edges of my vision darken,

focus, colors sharpening and sounds returning. I gasp, drawing in a ragged breath that feels

grips my shoulder, shaking me gently but insistently. I blink, trying to orient myself. We're

mirror.

as a croak. Swallowing hard, I try again.

like my heart was being squeezed in a vise, like something was trying

Yanking

in my

me over with a frown. "Your face went white as a sheet and your groaned like you were dying. I'm pretty sure you stopped

hadn't I? The memory of those endless seconds without air sends a shiver down my

meet mine in

still scattered, my mind overflowing. "I'm not sure. I was reaching out to it, trying to call it to me like Magister Orion said. And then..."

before shaking her head. "Stupid

many questions, and

Marcus's

try to yank your soul out

something in me rebels against the idea. "No, it wasn't malicious. Just desperate." I pause, surprised by my own certainty. How can I be so

of me tugs again, and I

you getting hurt. Maybe we should wait until we reach Lucas before trying

veins. It's like my body is vibrating from the inside out,

before I try contacting the book again. Too many weird things keep happening to me. I'd rather not risk dying before we

sense of

if I desperately

sends a pang

of you made contact yet?" I ask, looking between Vanessa and Marcus. Hope flutters in my chest, fragile and desperate. Vanessa shakes her head, a worried frown creasing her brow. "No, nothing yet. Vester should be able to reach me by now. It's strange." "How long has it been since you could sense him?" Surprised, I

hour? It felt like mere minutes had passed. The realization is chilling. How much time

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Ava Yanking At

slipping away into that strange, mental-magical

felt a pack presence once," he admits. "But it was

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