{"id":3054,"date":"2016-11-25T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3054"},"modified":"2016-11-24T19:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:24:57","slug":"forty-five-05","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3054","title":{"rendered":"Forty-five – 05"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cDid you get anything from them?\u201d J.T. asked. \u201cAny\u2014any sort of guarantee?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly a bargain I wouldn\u2019t keep if I could,\u201d Thom murmured.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo just the request for Matt and Hecate?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMore like an order,\u201d Thom said, then shook his head. \u201cLike I said. I wouldn\u2019t give them up even if we knew where they were.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNoble of you,\u201d Leinth piped up, \u201ceven if it would get us all killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to let us get killed,\u201d Thom said. \u201cAt least, I\u2019m not going to let us go down without a fight.\u201d His lips thinned and he rested his hand on the pommel of his sword. There was something comforting about its weight, about the weight of the bow in his other hand.<\/p>\n

No. I\u2019m not going to let us get ourselves killed. We don\u2019t end here. We can\u2019t.<\/em><\/p>\n

We have a destiny and it doesn\u2019t end here.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re moving.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thom jerked at the sound of Carolyn\u2019s voice. \u201cThe army?\u201d<\/p>\n

She nodded, her expression grim. \u201cThe faeries are still watching, though they can\u2019t get too close.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do they see?\u201d Thom asked, scarcely daring to breathe, his heart like lead in his chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cBattle lines,\u201d Carolyn said softly. \u201cThey see battle lines being drawn up. They\u2019re arraying for a march. That\u2019s what they\u2019re telling me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thom closed his eyes.<\/p>\n

I was afraid of that.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cSeamus! Is the Hunt ready for a fight?\u201d<\/p>\n

He saw Seamus grimace out of the corner of his eye, but the other man dipped his head in a nod. \u201cAs always.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGood,\u201d Thom said, then took a deep breath. \u201cI think we\u2019re going to need them.\u201d He glanced toward Carolyn. \u201cGet under cover.\u201d<\/p>\n

She shook her head. \u201cNo. Not this time. I fight with the rest of you. This is my home, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

J.T. looked stricken. Thom put his hand on his shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be okay,\u201d Thom murmured.<\/p>\n

His hand fell away and he headed back to the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Thom’s point of view.] \u201cDid you get anything from them?\u201d J.T. asked. \u201cAny\u2014any sort of guarantee?\u201d \u201cOnly a bargain I wouldn\u2019t keep if I could,\u201d Thom murmured. \u201cSo just the request for Matt and Hecate?\u201d \u201cMore … 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":[124,234,14],"tags":[150,163,171,170,160,166,149,148,159,168,147,165,158,146],"class_list":["post-3054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-5","category-chapter-45","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-carolyn-roberts","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-j-t-mackenzie","tag-leinth","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-seamus-vaughan","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thom-ambrose","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-Ng","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054","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=3054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3054\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}