{"id":3915,"date":"2019-03-27T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2019-03-26T18:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T22:48:17","slug":"thirteen-04-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Tala was watching us, so intensely that she startled when Paul stood back up again and handed her his plate with a quick grin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for breakfast,\u201d he said. \u201cThink anyone will mind if I take the cup with me?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat?\u201d Tala blinked a few times, then shook herself. \u201cNo, no, it\u2019s fine. Take it. Do you want me to top you off?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNah.\u201d Paul smiled and toasted her with the mug. \u201cThanks, though. See you guys at lunch. If Stasia asks, let her know I\u2019m still out on the watch, okay?\u201d His little sister, Angie, must have already known where he was\u2014or would assume as much. Angie was a smart kid for all of her youth\u2014but still just a kid. She\u2019d be with one of the others right now, probably getting a start on what passed for school instruction for the day.<\/p>\n

Thom watched him go for as long as it took for Paul to move out of earshot before he looked at me again. \u201cAll right,\u201d he said quietly. \u201cNow what\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid you not want him to know?\u201d Tala asked before I could answer. She started making a pot of tea to go with the coffee that was already made. \u201cYou got really tense and pale for a second there, Mar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not exactly up to dealing with more than my own panic right about now, Tala.\u201d I scrubbed my free hand over my face and exhaled. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019ve got anything to be<\/em> panicking about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thom looked between us, his expression caught somewhere between concerned and annoyed. \u201cCould one of you please start explaining what precisely anyone would be panicking about before I decide to wander off to figure it out myself?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing major,\u201d Tala said as she started to make herself a cup of tea. \u201cJust a bunch of bad feelings coupled with the day coupled with whistles coupled with the Wild Hunt coupled with Leinth flipping out and then Matt and Phelan and Hecate going to see what all the hullabaloo was about from the Wild Hunt.\u201d She exhaled, then shrugged. \u201cNow it seems they\u2019ve headed for the gate and I have to imagine that we\u2019ll know more soon enough. That about cover it, Mar?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d I said, unable to make eye contact with my husband, who blinked slowly, looking between Tala and me. \u201cYeah, that about covers it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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