{"id":3700,"date":"2018-08-24T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2018-08-23T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T22:59:08","slug":"forty-four-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3700","title":{"rendered":"Forty-four – 06"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cAre you about to tell me that the forges of Avalon were magic?\u201d Cameron guessed, watching as Neve\u2019s smile began to bloom more fully. Something tugged at the back of his brain\u2014something about Avalon itself, something he thought he knew but couldn\u2019t quite remember, though not from lack of trying.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just the forges, Cam,\u201d she whispered, still smiling. \u201cAvalon<\/em> was magic\u2014is, I suppose. Maybe it survived.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think it\u2019s possible?\u201d<\/p>\n

She shrugged slightly, staring at nothing for a moment as she rested her head against his chest. \u201cMaybe. I haven\u2019t been there for centuries, not since my father ordered us all to leave. It\u2019s a long time for a place to survive without really being tended. I don\u2019t know. Phelan might. Hell, he might have been there since then.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was it like?\u201d Cameron asked, trying to picture a place he\u2019d only heard stories about, never actually seen. \u201cI mean, there are a thousand stories about it but I have no idea which ones are true\u2014what\u2019s real<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMm.\u201d Neve sighed softly, glancing down toward Anne for a second. Their daughter was asleep, tiny mouth open in an \u2018o.\u2019 She smiled, differently this time, one of love and pride and oddly enough, relief. \u201cWhere to start. Well, it was tucked into the hills by a lake fed by a river with a waterfall. We were so high up, the mists would hide the way up to the village but we could see for miles<\/em> even though no one who didn\u2019t know the way could find us. The people\u2014some of them were like me and then there were others who weren\u2019t, were just normal people, and some that came from pairings of normal people and the Aes Dana, like the pairings that produced Brigh\u00edd and C\u00edar\u2019s mother. It was peaceful there and yet somehow\u2014somehow there was a fire<\/em> to that place that I can\u2019t adequately describe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow long were you there?\u201d Cameron asked softly.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn and off for a long time,\u201d she said softly, closing her eyes again. \u201cIt was the one place I was allowed to come back to, that Father didn\u2019t stop me from coming to even when he told us we had to forget this world. He let me come back.\u201d She opened her eyes, brow furrowing as she glanced up toward him. \u201cYou know, until now, I never wondered why.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron shrugged slightly, frowning. \u201cDoes it matter?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Never said softly. \u201cI really don\u2019t know. Maybe. He was a lot of things but at the same time, he always had a reason for what he did\u2014or didn\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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