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No, instead, I rescinded into my mind further to escape.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

everything

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

"Fine’?”

 ‘Fine’!?" I repeated, my voice

o call an ambulance.Goddammit, Kieran! Why didn’t you

then grabbed my hands and held

you doing?!" I

"Stop," he ordered.

even

it’s not.How can

look," he said,

killed you...I-I didn’t

forcing

"...I said I’m fine."

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

stopped bleeding a

"W-what...? I don’t understand..."

to look at the

broken pieces of

No blood in sight.

I had seen it so

that all be in my

proceeded to lift me onto his lap

what was happening, but it didn’t take long for me to realise what

was that

That he was safe.

"J-I’m sorry," I cried.

sorry.I

came up and gently stroked my hair, indulging my

blanket, his warmth

"You’re fine," he said.

do anything

did,"

strong enough.Regardless of whether it

tried to help me, it was clear that I was still a failure.It

that I’d never overcome.Somehow, it felt

useless to my father, and useless at things that should have been

another screw-up to

didn’t seem

away and held my face so I was forced to

you did was your fault," he

"I mean it."

"But I—."

he instantly cut

a breath and repeat

not my

to protest but he gave me a look that

telling me this exercise wasn’t

I finally said in

he still seemed satisfied by

approval, he let

seen anything like it," he

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

do you mean? Are you saying there is actually something wrong

you.But maybe more...something external affecting you," he

metallic touching you like a piercing? It’d look something like silver." I thought about it for

for me given m

"No."

drink any teas? Or regularly deal with any

replied again, becoming increasingly more confused by the strange

a moment in thought, visibly trying hard to come up

I could tell he was

"..What about medications?"

my body

had regular medicine I took for anxiety and post- shifting side effects; mostly the pain and nausea.But...that was something I had been prescribed

By a doctor.

A professional.

at least, they were a professional...employed

though,

Kieran prompted when I still

back the bile in my throat,

"Yes," I answered.

"Yes. I have medication."

show it to

walked to where I'd left my bag,

took a bit of shuffling before I eventually

everything happening so quickly, my fingers

finally said, presenting it

behind and swiftly took it from me, starting

he worked, subconsciously pulling the blanket around me more for

than anything that this

it was rarely

"These...these are suppressors,"

in shock, slowly looking up at

in chemical warfare.I llegal now,

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