{"id":3465,"date":"2018-01-08T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2018-01-07T18:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T23:18:32","slug":"thirty-03-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3465","title":{"rendered":"Thirty – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

His feet felt heavy as he and Leinth began the walk back toward the village. J.T. stayed quiet, hands shoved deep into his pockets. He could feel the weight of concern, feel Leinth\u2019s eyes on him. She was worried.<\/p>\n

Truth be known, so was he.<\/p>\n

Something was bothering him, though, had been bothering him since the encounter with Persephone. He looked sidelong to Leinth, who looked quickly away, as if she didn\u2019t want him to know she\u2019d been watching him.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe called you cousin,\u201d he said quietly. \u201cWhy would she do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Leinth glanced at him, her brows going up in tandem. \u201cOf all the things you could ask, you\u2019d ask me that?\u201d<\/p>\n

J.T. shook his head. \u201cThat was the only part of what just happened that really surprised me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leinth sighed, turning her gaze upward for a few seconds. The sky was a deep, bottomless blue, the kind of sky that seemed to go on forever, regardless of the season. She crossed her arms, lips thinning for a few seconds. \u201cWell. Why wouldn\u2019t she call me that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re from different Otherworlds,\u201d J.T. said quietly. \u201cAren\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBarely,\u201d Leinth said. \u201cAnd we coexisted for so long it seems as if they might as well have been all the same. Dozens of generations of dealing with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStill. To call you cousin?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHecate could easily do the same,\u201d Leinth said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not talking about Hecate. We\u2019re talking about Persephone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might as well be,\u201d Leinth said. \u201cThose two\u2014they were close. One protecting the other at every turn in equal measure.\u201d She exhaled a sigh. \u201cThat was how I knew she couldn\u2019t have been a monster. I had known Persephone well enough to know that she could never care that much about someone evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you knew her?\u201d<\/p>\n

She sighed again. \u201cYes. Yes, I did. And I failed her. We all did. Every single one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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