{"id":2596,"date":"2015-08-31T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2015-08-30T19:57:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T23:57:06","slug":"fifteen-01-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Leinth\u2019s lips thinned as she slowly approached Matthew Astoris from behind. She could sense what waited beyond the wall, the mist that had risen well outside the confines of Marin\u2019s wardings. These were cold ones, frigid as the depths of winter, as the dark shadows of her soul before the day she\u2019d met Seamus, the former Taliesin, all those long-gone yesterdays ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhelan really did reach too deep, didn\u2019t he?\u201d Matt asked softly, not looking at her as she climbed up the wall to perch beside him.<\/p>\n

Leinth frowned, glancing at him before her gaze drifted to the mists, dark and bluish and chill with tendrils of gray and white lacing through it. It was hardly a natural mist, she knew that for certain. \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we stopped the lindworm,\u201d Matt murmured. \u201cPhelan drew on something, said to my sister that he\u2019d reached too deep. He really did, didn\u2019t he? That\u2019s why they\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n

A shiver crept down the winter goddess\u2019s spine and her lips thinned. \u201cYou think so?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy else would they be here?\u201d He left the fact that they hadn\u2019t attacked yet unspoken. Leinth could sense that the ghosts beyond the walls were waiting for something, but she wasn\u2019t quite certain what.<\/p>\n

And their Spiritweaver is afield. Poor planning on our part, isn\u2019t it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Something tugged insistently at the edges of her thoughts, something disturbingly familiar but elusive. She rocked back, frowning. \u201cThey\u2019re waiting for something,\u201d she whispered, not quite knowing where the words came from.<\/p>\n

Matt looked at her askance. \u201cWhat the hell would they be waiting for?\u201d<\/p>\n

Leinth glanced back toward the field. A flicker of blue-green caught her eye, a figure drifting through the mist. Her jaw tightened as her stomach sank.<\/p>\n

Just what we need. Someone else wanting our throats torn out.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTheir leader.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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