{"id":2296,"date":"2014-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2014-11-13T18:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:27:30","slug":"thirty-eight-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-eight – 07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phelan closed his eyes and took a pair of breaths, trying to calm himself slightly. Just relax. It\u2019ll all eventually come, right? All of it will come and everything will be fine.<\/em><\/p>\n

He thought of the girl, with her eyes bright with unshed tears, her honey blonde hair pulled into a messy braid, as if she\u2019d been rushed in fixing it that morning\u2014or every morning. His heart gave that strange, painful double-beat and he shivered slightly. Jameson stayed quiet, leaning back in his chair\u2014Phelan could hear the quiet creak of the metal of the folding camp chair as his companion shifted his weight slightly.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something…<\/em> His brow furrowed. It was like something out of a dream. Everything hurt, then she put her hands on him. They glowed, glowed like the first rays of dawn as they lit the world, soothed him as nothing else could. The pain ebbed even as he heard her desperate whisper.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod help me, we can\u2019t lose him. I can\u2019t lose him.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Jacqueline.<\/em><\/p>\n

He sat straight up in the bed and swore as his back screamed and his body reported nothing short of agony from a dozen spots. Jameson stood from his chair abruptly, eyes wide. \u201cWhat the hell, Phelan?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere is she?\u201d He asked, hands fisting in the blankets. \u201cWhere\u2019s Jac?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2014I think she said she was going to get something to eat.\u201d Jameson blinked at him. \u201cDo you remember her now?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGet her,\u201d Phelan whispered. \u201cGet her now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gods and monsters, how could I have forgotten?<\/em> He shivered violently and barely suppressed the urge to curl into a ball.<\/p>\n

Nothing\u2019s right. Everything\u2019s wrong. Gods and monsters. What did she do to me? What did that little monster out there do to me?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI need her,\u201d Phelan whispered, staring at Jameson with desperation in his eyes. \u201cAnd I need her now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phelan closed his eyes and took a pair of breaths, trying to calm himself slightly. Just relax. It\u2019ll all eventually come, right? All of it will come and everything will be fine. He thought of the girl, with her eyes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,121,14,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-4","category-chapter-38-book-4","category-story","category-winter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-B2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}