{"id":3122,"date":"2017-01-30T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2017-01-29T18:54:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T23:54:06","slug":"two-03-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Two – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cPhelan?\u201d<\/p>\n

Phelan turned at the sound of Marin\u2019s voice, blinking. \u201cWhat are you doing up?\u201d He winced as soon as the words had left his mouth, wishing he could take them back. I could have phrased that better, more gently. She\u2019s not an invalid.<\/em> \u201cSorry. Come on. I was just starting breakfast.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shoving her hands into the pocket of her sweatshirt, Marin nodded, moving slowly to sit down on one of the hewn benches near the cooking fire. She chewed her lower lip, watching Phelan as he poured some water from the kettle over the fire. He could feel the weight of her gaze, sensed that something was amiss.<\/p>\n

Let her find the words,<\/em> he thought as he slipped some tea into the cup, setting it down on the stones ringing the fire to steep as he prepared a second mug of the stuff. Whatever\u2019s bothering her, she came to talk to me about it, right? If she\u2019d already chosen her words, she\u2019d have blurted them out by now.<\/em><\/p>\n

His stomach sank at the idea that something was wrong\u2014he prayed nothing was wrong. He\u2019d slept the previous day away, recovering from the magic he\u2019d called and the multiple assaults Thesan had launched on him. This morning had been better, and Jacqueline hadn\u2019t stopped him when he\u2019d given her a kiss and slipped out of bed. Phelan liked to think he knew his own limits, even if he pushed himself beyond them with alarming regularity.<\/p>\n

Marin still hadn\u2019t found the words she needed when he handed her one of the mugs of tea. He sat back on his heels, watching her as she stared down into the depths of the mug. He cleared his throat.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to tell me if you don\u2019t want to, leann\u00e1n<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

A bitter laugh escaped her and she shook her head. \u201cIt\u2019s not that. You need to know. If I don\u2019t tell you I\u2019m not sure who else is going to help me figure out what this means.\u201d<\/p>\n

His brows shot up and she glanced up at him, chewing on her lower lip.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething tried to get into the barrow,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd Matt and I can\u2019t figure out what it was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Phelan’s point of view.] \u201cPhelan?\u201d Phelan turned at the sound of Marin\u2019s voice, blinking. \u201cWhat are you doing up?\u201d He winced as soon as the words had left his mouth, wishing he could take them back. … 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":[240,242,14],"tags":[150,171,170,152,149,173,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-6","category-chapter-02-book-6","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","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-Om","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","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=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}