{"id":3494,"date":"2018-02-02T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2018-02-01T18:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T23:30:18","slug":"thirty-two-01-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-two – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Waves crashed against the shore, the salt spray caught on the wind, carried higher, up to the edge of the cliff where he stood watching, listening.<\/em><\/p>\n

Waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

They would be here sooner than any of them would like. It was only a matter of time. C\u00edar had warned them, in broken sentences and fragments of thoughts. He\u2019d warned them that they were coming.<\/em><\/p>\n

They would be here soon, perhaps on that day\u2019s tide.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finn took a deep breath, then another. The sky was the color of ashes. A storm was coming off the water. The wind was biting, but he remained where he was, watching.<\/em><\/p>\n

Waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Waiting.<\/em><\/p>\n

Soon he would see sails on the horizon. He knew it in his gut. His fingers tightened around the haft of the bow in his hands.<\/em><\/p>\n

Would they be here before the storm? Would they wreck on the rocks, on the shoals?<\/em><\/p>\n

We could only hope to be so lucky.<\/p>\n

She had dispatched envoys to her cousin, to the king of the \u00c1es Dana, lord of the isle. Finn could still remember C\u00edar\u2019s weak whisper when he had come to sit beside him and share the news. The blind man had been curled beneath a pile of blankets and skins near the fire, barely awake when Finn had come.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYour sister sent word to the king,\u201d Finn had murmured, settling down beside him, a plate of food and a mug of broth in hand. He\u2019d had little confidence that C\u00edar would be interested in either, but he\u2019d promised Brigh\u00edd that he\u2019d try. \u201cShe warned him of the war to come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe will hear but not heed,\u201d C\u00edar had whispered, sightless eyes trained on the fire. \u201cHe will not come to our aid this time, brother. We are on our own.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe will abandon us?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn time, they all will,\u201d C\u00edar whispered. \u201cAnd then we will truly see what our race is made of, in the age when our gods are suddenly gone.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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