{"id":3615,"date":"2018-06-04T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T04:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2018-06-03T20:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T00:54:51","slug":"thirty-nine-03-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-nine – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I sucked in a breath, breaking into a jog for the last few dozen yards to the wall. \u201cWhat have we got?\u201d I shouted up toward Seamus, slowing again only as I approached the ladder up to the top of the wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnnatural mist and shadow,\u201d he called back. \u201cGot a bad feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n

That makes two of us.<\/em> \u00a0I took two breaths.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cCan you see anything in the mist?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

I climbed the ladder quickly, Matt half a step behind. Seamus made eye contact with me as I came up over the edge, moving toward him where he perched a few feet down from the gates. His gaze flicked away for a moment, lighting on the warhammer slung across Matt\u2019s back, then returned to me, a bit more troubled than it had been a moment before.<\/p>\n

I said nothing as I turned to survey the ground that lay before the gates, still clear, though a mist gathered at the far end of the field, beyond where the road had been, where its remnants still stood. It was just as Seamus had said\u2014nothing discernable moving in that mist, in those shadows.<\/p>\n

A chill crept down my spine just the same, like a rivulet of ice running down from the nape of my neck all the way to the small of my back.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something out there,\u201d I said quietly.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt,\u201d Seamus said, still watching me. \u201cIt\u2019s the who and the what and the numbers they bring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMagic,\u201d Matt murmured by my side, his gaze focused on the mist the same as mine. \u201cThey\u2019ve called a mist to hide themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you know who it is?\u201d<\/p>\n

He shook his head slowly in response to my question. \u201cNo. But give me a minute and I\u2019ll figure it out. I can just barely sense\u2014\u201d He fell silent for a moment, leaning against the top of the wall. \u201cThere\u2019s something familiar. I just need another moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drums echoed softly in the distance. I swallowed bile.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if we have it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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