{"id":3624,"date":"2018-06-13T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T04:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3624"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T16:54:12","slug":"forty-01-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3624","title":{"rendered":"Forty – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Matt\u2019s stomach dropped and his gaze snapped sideways, eyes widening. Magic buzzed against his skin, like electricity humming through a transformer. He kept one hand pressed against the wall, the other groping for Marin.<\/p>\n

Phelan grasped his shoulder. \u201cSteady,\u201d he breathed, the word nearly lost. He spared a moment to focus on Matt, their gazes meeting for a moment before Phelan looked back to the sky again, watched the clouds start to twist on themselves, lightning turning carbon-gray to silver-white in staccato strobes.<\/p>\n

Steady isn\u2019t something that\u2019s in the cards right now,<\/em> Matt thought with the barest trace of bitterness, but the words never reached his tongue. He tore his gaze from Phelan and looked to the sky again, to the storm that Thordin was starting to take control of as if it was the most natural thing in the world.<\/p>\n

More than a thousand years ago, it might have been, but Thordin was a different man now, just as Matt and Marin were, just as Thom was.<\/p>\n

Things were different<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I hope he knows what he\u2019s doing.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cArchers! Aim for just inside the edge of the mists.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marin\u2019s voice jarred him from his thoughts. Bile rose in his throat.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t panic, dumbass. Keep your shit together.<\/em><\/p>\n

It was easier said than done.<\/p>\n

Magic tickled at the back of his mind, though he knew it wasn\u2019t someone else\u2019s\u2014it was his, blooming, offering, and the feel of it was nearly as unsettling as everything else in the situation. Distantly, he felt Phelan\u2019s fingers flex around his shoulder again, digging in slightly. It was enough to snap his attention back. The distraction could only have lasted a second or two, since he could still hear the echoes of Marin\u2019s orders moving up and down the wall, relayed down toward the far end. She hadn\u2019t given the order to loose yet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe won\u2019t stop, Phelan,\u201d Matt breathed. \u201cNot until he gets what he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

And what he wants is my wife as his private victim all over again.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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