{"id":3365,"date":"2017-09-29T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2017-09-28T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T00:30:16","slug":"twenty-three-01-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-three – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is from J.T.’s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou seem tired, Jameson.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

J.T. winced at the sound of \u00c9riu\u2019s voice, a threadbare whisper in the darkness as he eased down the darkened hallway in the last hours before dawn. \u201cI am tired,\u201d he whispered back to the ghost dogging his steps. \u201cI\u2019ve been up for probably nearly twenty-four hours at this point. Anyone would be tired.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a lie, though. He wasn\u2019t nearly as tired as he pretended to be\u2014adrenaline was still pumping, and though he knew he should have been beyond exhausted, it hadn\u2019t quite hit yet. Maybe when the rush wore off. That happened, sometimes. He\u2019d crash and crash hard, probably sleep the better part of the day and then have to struggle to reset his sleeping schedule in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

All he really wanted to do was sleep, but at the same time, he didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because you don\u2019t want to sleep alone and you have been for weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s bothering you?\u201d<\/em> the ghost asked. She was alongside him now, a spectre in a dark green gown, her pale hair bound in braids and woven through with silver trinkets that clinked softly with each movement. \u201cEverything went well. They\u2019re all healthy and safe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s something digging at you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s not Thom or Sif or anything like that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He stopped dead in his tracks, looking directly at her. \u201cIf you know so much, \u00c9riu, you\u2019d bloody well better tell me what\u2019s bothering me since you seem to be damned good at telling me what it\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n

She turned squarely toward him, her eyes narrowing. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to take that tone of voice with me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A frustrated sigh escaped his lips and he started walking again, suddenly not caring if she kept up or not. He could see her from the corner of his eye, but she didn\u2019t say anything as his strides ate up the distance between him and his bed. He jerked open the door to his room.<\/p>\n

\u201cJay?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from J.T.’s point of view.] \u201cYou seem tired, Jameson.\u201d J.T. winced at the sound of \u00c9riu\u2019s voice, a threadbare whisper in the darkness as he eased down the darkened hallway in the last hours before dawn. \u201cI … 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":[240,272,14],"tags":[150,205,171,170,160,149,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-6","category-chapter-23-book-6","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-eriu","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-j-t-mackenzie","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-Sh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}