{"id":3966,"date":"2019-05-20T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3966"},"modified":"2019-05-19T19:57:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T23:57:04","slug":"fifteen-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3966","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen – 08"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cTen thousand miles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hecate blinked, shaking herself. She stared at Carolyn, who grinned at her from the other side of the flower bed. \u201cHuh?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were ten thousand miles away just now,\u201d Carolyn said. \u201cOr maybe further\u2014and longer ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hecate choked on a laugh. \u201cYou\u2019re not wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you all right?\u201d<\/p>\n

After a moment\u2019s hesitation, she nodded slightly. \u201cYeah, I think so. There\u2019s a lot of shit going on, that\u2019s all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere always is.\u201d Carolyn stood, cleaning her hands on the seat of her jeans. \u201cYou were going down to the barrow, not staying up here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUp here is fine,\u201d Hecate said, perhaps a little too quickly. She took a quick breath, then laughed weakly. \u201cNear and far enough for me to think, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carolyn offered her hand. \u201cCome on. Let\u2019s go take a walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2014you don\u2019t have to, Carolyn.\u201d<\/p>\n

She smiled crookedly. \u201cI know. But I can tell you felt like you needed to come out here and the least I can do is go down there with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hecate swallowed hard, then smiled, taking her hand and pulling herself to her feet. \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course.\u201d Carolyn grinned again, though the smile faded a few seconds later. \u201cYou know, I don\u2019t think any of us have thanked you enough for what you did on the wall during the last attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI barely did anything,\u201d Hecate said, dusting her hands off on her thighs. \u201cHell, I\u2019m still more than half convinced it was some kind of trap that I sprung on myself. Matt had to dive in after me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we won,\u201d Carolyn said softly. \u201cThat\u2019s the important part.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d Hecate said softly. \u201cYeah, we did, and you\u2019re right\u2014it is. We just have to keep winning until there\u2019s no one left for us to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll happen someday,\u201d Carolyn said. \u201cRight?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight,\u201d Hecate said, mustering up a smile. \u201cSomeday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Hecate’s point of view.] \u201cTen thousand miles.\u201d Hecate blinked, shaking herself. She stared at Carolyn, who grinned at her from the other side of the flower bed. \u201cHuh?\u201d \u201cYou were ten thousand miles away just now,\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":[299,319,14],"tags":[150,163,171,170,194,149,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-15-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-carolyn-roberts","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-11Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","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=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}