{"id":3793,"date":"2018-11-30T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2018-11-29T19:47:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:47:01","slug":"six-08-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3793","title":{"rendered":"Six – 08"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

After a few moments of silence, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s a natural storm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sif exhaled, her eyes sliding shut.\u00a0 \u201cGood,\u201d she breathed out.\u00a0 \u201cBloody good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were more worried than you let on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe just a little,\u201d she said, twisting to curl against him.\u00a0 \u201cI think the last thing you want to be doing right now is wrestling with someone for control of a storm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re right on that,\u201d he murmured, pressing his lips to her temple.\u00a0 Sif sighed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you,\u201d she whispered, reaching up to tangle her fingers in his short hair.\u00a0 \u201cI love you so much it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know,\u201d Thordin said, closing his eyes again.\u00a0 \u201cChristus<\/em>, I know.\u201d<\/p>\n

She huffed a soft laugh.\u00a0 \u201cWhy do you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do I do what?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUse that term.\u00a0 His followers killed you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thordin sighed, wrapping his arms around her shoulders again.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said softly.\u00a0 \u201cI guess it\u2019s always something I\u2019ve done since I came back, since I was old enough to know what the word meant.\u00a0 You have to understand, Sif, for more than a decade, I had no idea what I was, who I\u2019d been.\u00a0 I picked up things when I was growing up as someone else\u2019s son, as who I\u2019d been reborn as.\u00a0 I picked up things from the people who took me in after they were killed.\u00a0 Some habits stuck.\u00a0 That…that was one of them, I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has power when you say it,\u201d she whispered.\u00a0 \u201cLike when Phelan and Seamus and Neve say that phrase in their tongue.\u201d<\/p>\n

A shiver worked its way down his spine and he buried his nose against her hair.\u00a0 \u201cSome things are hard to shake even when you know the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think you could use it?\u201d<\/p>\n

He startled.\u00a0 \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think you could use it?\u00a0 Against things like Leviathan?\u00a0 The word has power when you use it\u2014when Jacqueline uses it, too, I can feel it.\u00a0 Do you think you could?\u00a0 If you had to?\u201d<\/p>\n

He realized he didn\u2019t have an answer.\u00a0 Perhaps he didn\u2019t want one.\u00a0 His lips thinned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he whispered into her hair.\u00a0 \u201cI just don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Thordin’s point of view.] After a few moments of silence, he said, \u201cIt\u2019s a natural storm.\u201d Sif exhaled, her eyes sliding shut.\u00a0 \u201cGood,\u201d she breathed out.\u00a0 \u201cBloody good.\u201d \u201cYou were more worried than you let on.\u201d … 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":[299,308,14],"tags":[150,171,170,149,148,168,147,167,165,169,146],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-06-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-sif","tag-story","tag-thordin","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-Zb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","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=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3794,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}