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No, instead, I rescinded into my mind further to escape.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

feel my entire body shaking, feel the

doing, that everything would be

of being helped? Was I actually a monster? "Raven, what are you talking

"Fine’?”

repeated,

even have time t o call an ambulance.Goddammit, Kieran! Why didn’t you listen

kept trying to stop the bleeding but he then grabbed my hands

are you

"Stop," he ordered.

barely even a

no it’s not.How can

down and look," he

killed you...I-I didn’t

he yelled this time, forcing me

"...I said I’m fine."

down at his chest, I found that the wound was barely more than a

stopped

"W-what...? I don’t understand..."

my head around to look at the room...and found it completely

from a few broken pieces of furniture,

No blood in sight.

seen it so

it....How could that all be in my head?

here," Kieran said, and proceeded to lift me

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

was

That he was safe.

"J-I’m sorry," I cried.

sorry.I fucked

came up and gently stroked my hair, indulging my abrupt need for

with the blanket, his warmth

"You’re fine," he said.

do

I did,"

whether it

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

that I’d never overcome.Somehow, it felt like

useless at things that should have

another screw-up to

didn’t seem to like

and held my face so I was forced to look at

was your fault," he said

"I mean it."

"But I—."

he instantly

and repeat

was not

but he gave me a look that made me

if telling me this exercise wasn’t

fault," I finally said in

but he still

approval, he let go

that was...I’ve never seen anything like

the slowest, most painful changes I've ever witnessed.But...I don’t know.It’s giving me a weird feeling.Almost as if there’s more to

saying there is actually something wrong with

external affecting you," he said,

touching you like a piercing? It’d look something like silver." I thought about it for a moment before shaking my

idea for me given m

"No."

diet.Do you drink any

replied again, becoming increasingly more

thought, visibly trying hard to

time, I could tell

"..What about medications?"

body

medications.I had regular medicine I took for anxiety and post- shifting side effects;

By a doctor.

A professional.

they were a professional...employed

though, right? Because that

prompted when I

back the bile in my throat, hoping

"Yes," I answered.

"Yes. I have medication."

show

where I'd left my bag, finding it

a bit of shuffling before I eventually could locate

everything happening so quickly,

I finally said,

it from

worked, subconsciously pulling the blanket around me more

more than anything that this

was rarely ever

"These...these are suppressors,"

said in shock, slowly

and used in

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