{"id":2792,"date":"2016-03-11T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T00:53:01","slug":"twenty-six-04-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=2792","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-six – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Marin’s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n

I put my arm around his shoulders and squeezed him gently. Phelan sighed and shook his head slightly, still staring at the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s never been easy,\u201d he said. \u201cDoing what I do, what Seamus used to do. It\u2019s been lonely.\u201d He sighed. \u201cEven now that I\u2019m not alone anymore, it\u2019s still hard\u2014harder than I\u2019d like, but for different reasons. I\u2019m worried about endangering all of you, I\u2019m worried about what might come after you or me or all of us. I\u2019m worried about what might happen out there in the wider world because I\u2019m not out there to stop it, because I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not why you tried to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA few months ago? It was part of it.\u201d He mopped the worst of the rain from his face as he glanced down toward our boots. \u201cI was worried about the danger that came with me being here. I realize that I was being a bloody idiot when I decided that stumbling off in the middle of the night was a good idea, but my intentions were good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d I agreed, my voice quiet. I watched him for a moment before I risked changing the subject. \u201cIs that why what your sister said is eating at you so much?\u201d<\/p>\n

Phelan swore softly and started walking again. I jogged a few steps to keep up, letting him chew over the question without my pressing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love my sister,\u201d he said after a long silence and a dozen steps. \u201cShe\u2019s my sister. I would give my life for her just like I\u2019d give my life for anyone who shared my blood. But…\u201d his voice trailed away and he sighed again, slumping to sit on a sodden piece of broken concrete that jutted up out of the ruins near the tents. \u201cSometimes I think she was born to eviscerate me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Marin’s point of view.] I put my arm around his shoulders and squeezed him gently. Phelan sighed and shook his head slightly, still staring at the sky. \u201cIt\u2019s never been easy,\u201d he said. \u201cDoing what I … 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":[124,197,14],"tags":[150,170,152,149,173,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-2792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-5","category-chapter-26-book-5","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fiction","tag-marin-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-phelan-ocredne","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-J2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792","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=2792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2792\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}