A Gift from the Goddess

Chapter 121: Book 2 - Chapter 15 

"Raven."

Through the darkness I heard a voice, piercing through the haze.

It sounded urgent.

Someone calling out to me.

"Raven, shift back."

Every now and then I would see snippets.

Just stilled images flashing before me, showing pictures of a living room.

Of a broken table.

Of a boy.

It felt somewhat familiar but I couldn’t place it.

"Raven! —Ah, fuck."

..And pain.

So much pain.

The voice continued to call out to me, pleading with m e to do something...but I wasn’t ready.

No, instead, I rescinded into my mind further to escape.

To try and forget what was happening.

...To pretend everything was okay.

And so, I hid from it all, blocking out the images and voices.

Waiting until, finally, things didn’t hurt so badly.

..Until I was sure the pain had stopped.

".Raven," came the voice again.

Only, this time, recognition finally kicked in.

Kieran.

It was Kieran's voice and...and I’d shifted.Changing into the wolf and...—.

Oh...no, no...Instantly, my eyes flew open...and I found myself contained within his arms, wrapped up in a blanket.

He looked down at me with a face showing signs of exhaustion, his breathing heavy.

And I immediately knew something was wrong.

I wasn’t sure how long had passed but I was back to m y normal self, implying it had been at least a few minutes.

But...there was something else too.

Something I’d come to expect from these lapses.

..I could smell the sickly scent of blood.I squirmed out of his grasp, pushing away just enough to get a good look at him...and there it was.

The source of the smell.

A large gash down the front of his chest.

Blood flowing from it...increasingly becoming worse ...pooling on the ground around us.

And, suddenly, it was as if the whole world tilted.

Everywhere I looked there was blood.

Red painted on every surface, on every piece of furniture, on every wall...curtain...and lamp.

And as I frantically looked around, I felt my breathing quicken, my heart starting to race.

...Just what had I done? This was exactly what I had been afraid of and yet I’d let it happen.

I turned back to Kieran, finding his face now so pale, and I quickly moved my hands to his chest to help stop the bleeding.

Hands that were soaked even up along my forearms already.

"I’m so sorry," I whispered.

"I-I didn't mean to do this." I'd told him that this was dangerous and a bad idea.

Why hadn’t he listened to me?

 "Raven...it’s okay," he replied.

I looked at him incredulously, as if he were insane for not seeing the amount of blood he had lost.

It was a miracle he was even still able to talk.

"N-no...no it’s not okay," I stammered.

"Nothing about this is okay...You’re going to die because of me."

body shaking, feel the tears beginning

what he was doing, that everything would

because I was incapable of being helped? Was I

"Fine’?”

repeated, my

o call an ambulance.Goddammit, Kieran!

then grabbed my hands

are you doing?!"

"Stop," he ordered.

even a

not.How can you

down and look," he

you...I-I

time, forcing me

"...I said I’m fine."

looked back down at his chest, I found that the wound

already stopped bleeding a while

"W-what...? I don’t understand..."

to

few broken pieces of furniture, the place seemed utterly the

No blood in sight.

so clearly, smelt the strong copper

that all be in my

to lift me onto his lap

by what was happening, but it didn’t take long for me to realise what this meant.I threw my arms around

was that he was

That he was safe.

"J-I’m sorry," I cried.

sorry.I

my hair, indulging my

blanket, his warmth was

"You’re fine," he said.

do anything

I did," I

enough.Regardless of whether

was clear that I was still a failure.It didn’t matter if I was human or

I’d never overcome.Somehow, it felt like I would forever be

my life now; useless to my father, and useless at things that should have been natural for me to

another screw-up to add to the

seem

face so I was forced to

was your fault,"

"I mean it."

"But I—."

instantly

breath and repeat after

not

to protest but he gave me

telling me this exercise wasn’t

fault," I finally said in

mumbled the words quietly but he

a small nod in approval, he let

never seen anything like

most painful changes I've ever witnessed.But...I don’t know.It’s giving me a weird

Are you saying there is

more...something external affecting you," he said, his brow

jewellery? Or have anything metallic touching you like a piercing? It’d look something like silver." I thought

a good idea for

"No."

how about diet.Do you drink any teas? Or regularly deal with

increasingly

visibly trying hard to come

could tell he

"..What about medications?"

my body

regular medicine I took for anxiety and post- shifting side effects; mostly

By a doctor.

A professional.

they were a professional...employed by m

wouldn’t have though, right?

Kieran prompted when I still hadn’t

swallowed back the bile in my throat, hoping Kieran was wrong about

"Yes," I answered.

"Yes. I have medication."

show it to

up and walked to where I'd left my bag, finding

of shuffling before

so quickly, my fingers

said, presenting

from me, starting to

whole time, I silently watched as he worked, subconsciously pulling the blanket around me more

more than anything that this really

was rarely

"These...these are suppressors,"

in shock, slowly looking up

were designed and used in chemical warfare.I llegal

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