{"id":3768,"date":"2018-11-05T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2018-11-04T17:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T22:58:34","slug":"five-03-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"Five – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

J.T. sighed, still staring at the fire, the look on his face dubious, clearly not buying what Phelan was trying to sell.\u00a0 \u201cEven if that\u2019s true\u2014and I\u2019m not saying that it is\u2014I still feel like an utter failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat coffee smells incredible,\u201d Marin\u2019s voice said from nearby.\u00a0 \u201cAnd why are you feeling like a failure, Jay?\u201d<\/p>\n

Phelan glanced at Jacqueline who blew out a silent breath in relief.\u00a0 He had to grin and she grinned back.\u00a0 Her look said everything.\u00a0 It was all he could do not to breathe a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

Cavalry\u2019s here.<\/em><\/p>\n

The cavalry was in the form of Marin and Hecate, who both appeared out of the tent\u2019s gloom and into the circle of warm firelight.\u00a0 J.T. took one look at Hecate and his face fell.<\/p>\n

She frowned at him, brows knitting.\u00a0 \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t done<\/em> anything,\u201d he said quietly.\u00a0 \u201cShe\u2019s still out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hecate took a quiet breath and Marin reached to touch her arm.\u00a0 Hecate glanced at her and managed a weak smile, shaking her head.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m okay,\u201d she told her sister-in-law before she turned to J.T.\u00a0 \u201cJay, I know she is.\u00a0 It\u2019s okay.\u00a0 We\u2019ll help her.\u00a0 You made a promise but I made one a long time ago.\u00a0 If there\u2019s one person who should be feeling guilty about not helping her yet, it\u2019s me, not you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went to sit beside him, drawing one knee up to her chest as she settled, setting her sketchbook and pencils next to her.\u00a0 She leaned a shoulder into his, watching him carefully.\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t let it eat you,\u201d she whispered.\u00a0 \u201cI let so much eat me up inside over the years it left me hollow.\u00a0 It\u2019s not worth it.\u00a0 She\u2019d tell you that, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s okay.\u00a0 We\u2019ll keep the promise.\u00a0 Sometimes it just takes time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Phelan’s point of view.] J.T. sighed, still staring at the fire, the look on his face dubious, clearly not buying what Phelan was trying to sell.\u00a0 \u201cEven if that\u2019s true\u2014and I\u2019m not saying that it is\u2014I … 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":[299,307,14],"tags":[150,171,170,194,160,174,152,149,173,148,168,147,165,200,146],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-05-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-j-t-mackenzie","tag-jacqueline-bell","tag-marin-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-phelan-ocredne","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thomas-merlin-ambrose","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-YM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","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=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}