{"id":3650,"date":"2018-07-04T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2018-07-03T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T19:40:50","slug":"forty-one-04-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3650","title":{"rendered":"Forty-one – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Hecate exhaled.\u00a0 \u201cThom.\u00a0 What did you see<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n

He squeezed his eyes shut, cradling his son closer to his chest and bowing his head, as if to avoid her gaze.\u00a0 \u201cJust go,\u201d he whispered.\u00a0 \u201cHell, Hecate, please just go<\/em> before it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see why you\u2019re making this so difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat makes two of us,\u201d he fired back, head coming up with eyes blazing.\u00a0 \u201cHecate, go<\/em>.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to need you.\u00a0 Trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI do,\u201d she said, swallowing bile.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s why I want to know what the hell you saw that\u2019s sending me there when Matt wanted me here<\/em> and out of danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not there, he\u2019s not going to see it coming.\u00a0 He needs you\u2014they all need you.\u00a0 Go<\/em>, Hecate.\u00a0 For the love of everything holy and sacred, go. \u00a0I can\u2019t lose them\u2014and neither can you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her breath caught and her eyes widened.\u00a0 For a split second, she wanted to ask what they wouldn\u2019t see coming but at almost the same moment realized that it didn\u2019t matter because she\u2019d know when she saw it\u2014and only she would know when she saw it.\u00a0 The bottom dropped out of her stomach.<\/p>\n

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

Ice sluiced through her veins at the sound of Persephone\u2019s whispered voice, heard for the first time in centuries.\u00a0 She was off like a shot, running toward the wall.\u00a0 Rain soaked through her shirt, her capris.\u00a0 She slipped in the mud and nearly went down, caught her balance and kept going.<\/p>\n

There was no time<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Shadows moved against the sky, against the clouds above, beyond the reach of Marin\u2019s wards.\u00a0 Hecate\u2019s heart shot upward, lodging in her throat.\u00a0 Her step faltered for a moment as she breathed a curse, then started moving again, faster.<\/p>\n

No, no, no.\u00a0 It can\u2019t be.\u00a0 They\u2019re all supposed to be gone.\u00a0 They were wiped out.<\/em><\/p>\n

Except they weren\u2019t, and now they were here, and Thom was right\u2014no one else was going to see them coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Hecate’s point of view.] Hecate exhaled.\u00a0 \u201cThom.\u00a0 What did you see?\u201d He squeezed his eyes shut, cradling his son closer to his chest and bowing his head, as if to avoid her gaze.\u00a0 \u201cJust go,\u201d he … 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":[240,293,14],"tags":[150,171,170,194,148,168,147,165,158,200,146],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-6","category-chapter-41-book-6","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thom-ambrose","tag-thomas-merlin-ambrose","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-WS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","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=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}