{"id":3292,"date":"2017-07-19T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2017-07-20T18:22:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T22:22:45","slug":"seventeen-03-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3292","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Menhit let go of Sif, squaring herself to meet Thordin\u2019s charge. Sif dropped to her knees, pale and swaying, weakly clutching at a spot where bright blood soaked her shirt. Anhur\u2019s gaze fell on Thordin, full of hate that the former warrior-god could see even at this distance.<\/p>\n

Behind him, he could hear Thom and Phelan shouting at him. He ignored their calls to stop, to wait. He plunged through the heart of the fighting just beyond the lines of the wards. Lightning struck around him, ahead of him, clearing a path as his boots somehow found traction in the mud churned up by fighting and the storm.<\/p>\n

He clearly heard Marin call her brother\u2019s name over the din and in a heartbeat knew that Matt had come over the wall after him.<\/p>\n

A camazotzi<\/em> came at him from ahead and abruptly, he realized the sheer multitude of them that Menhit and Anhur had brought and the sight shook him to the very core of his being. They had an army<\/em> at their backs and he was charging headlong into it.<\/p>\n

No. I\u2019m charging headlong to save <\/em>her.<\/em><\/p>\n

In that moment, nothing else mattered.<\/p>\n

An arrow took the camazotzi<\/em> charging him and it fell back. He didn\u2019t look back, but knew who\u2019d fired the shot.<\/p>\n

Marin would watch over them when no one else would, as Brigh\u00edd had for so many so, so long ago.<\/p>\n

Behind him, someone\u2014Seamus, maybe?\u2014issued the call to form up ranks. The sound reached his ears a few steps before he was on top of his quarry.<\/p>\n

Thordin launched himself at Menhit, catching her around the waist and tackling her to the ground. They hit hard enough that the air was knocked from her lungs and the dagger she\u2019d held, the one soaked with Sif\u2019s blood, bounced free of her hand and skittered across the ground and away, out of reach.<\/p>\n

Menhit sucked in a few rasping breaths, her eyes on Thordin\u2019s face, not full of the fear he had expected\u2014almost hoped for\u2014but of glee.<\/p>\n

Then the bitch had the gall to begin to laugh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She laughed<\/em> at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo vulnerable,\u201d she gasped, her mirth apparent even though her voice had become a rasp, as she struggled to regain her breath. \u201cIf I had known long ago that this was the only thing it would take to draw you out, I\u2019d have done it long ago. You won\u2019t kill me. I won\u2019t allow it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strength flowed away from his limbs and for a moment, control of the storm slipped away. He knew what she was doing but had no way to stop it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThordin.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then, control was back as certainly as it had slipped away with Sif\u2019s whisper of his name. His blood roared in his ears.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou dare,\u201d he snarled. He reared back, straddling Menhit, using his body to keep one of her arms pinioned, the other momentarily released. Lightning crackled around him, gathering in one hand, a hand he reached toward her throat. \u201cYou gambled and lost. Now it\u2019s time to pay the piper for the tune you called.\u201d<\/p>\n

One way or another, he was going to end this.<\/p>\n

One way or another, Menhit was going to pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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