{"id":3626,"date":"2018-06-15T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3626"},"modified":"2018-06-14T17:45:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T21:45:44","slug":"forty-02-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3626","title":{"rendered":"Forty – 02"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cI think we can both agree that he doesn\u2019t get to have what he wants,\u201d Phelan said, squeezing again. Matt\u2019s lips thinned further.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Matt agreed. \u201cThere\u2019s no way.\u201d He sucked in a breath. \u201cCan you feel it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n

A shiver crept down his spine. Matt glanced down. His fingers were glowing a faint, pale green, the light leeching from them and down into the wall, as if he was bleeding it off to strengthen their defenses unconsciously\u2014maybe he was. He had no way of knowing for certain, not at this point. \u201cMe,\u201d he breathed. \u201cMy magic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thunder crackled in tune with forks of lighting that spidered in the clouds above, the world growing brighter for the space of a few seconds before the world went dim again, like the last moments of twilight before full dark. It was hard to breathe and Matt suddenly knew that he was spending most of his strength holding his magic in check. He risked a glance toward Phelan, sucking in another breath.<\/p>\n

\u201cShit,\u201d Phelan murmured, eyes widening. \u201cShit, Matt.\u201d His gaze flicked toward Marin for a split second, then refocused again. Matt didn\u2019t dare to look. His gut already told him what he\u2019d find if he did.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we live through this, we have to figure this out,\u201d Matt muttered, squeezing his eyes shut for a few seconds. I can\u2019t live like this.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will,\u201d Phelan promised. \u201cFor now, I think we\u2019ve got work to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt nodded mutely, looking back to the mists.<\/p>\n

Next to him, he felt his sister draw her bow, pulling the string back to her ear, arrow notched.<\/p>\n

\u201cLoose<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Matt’s point of view.] \u201cI think we can both agree that he doesn\u2019t get to have what he wants,\u201d Phelan said, squeezing again. Matt\u2019s lips thinned further. \u201cNo,\u201d Matt agreed. \u201cThere\u2019s no way.\u201d He sucked in … 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":[240,292,14],"tags":[150,171,170,152,181,149,173,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-3626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-6","category-chapter-40-book-6","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-marin-astoris","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-phelan-ocredne","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-Wu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626","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=3626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3627,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3626\/revisions\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}