{"id":3977,"date":"2019-05-31T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2019-05-30T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:26:11","slug":"sixteen-04-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=3977","title":{"rendered":"Sixteen – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Matt\u2019s heart threatened to beat right out of his chest as his arms closed around Hecate, holding her tightly against him.\u00a0 Carolyn huddled close to both he and Thordin, her eyes wide.\u00a0 Matt caught sight of a glimmer of white and blue\u2014one of Carolyn\u2019s sprites, if he wasn\u2019t mistaken.<\/p>\n

\u201cCare, have they seen anything?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing that\u2019s making sense based on their explanations,\u201d she said, a thin tendril of fear threated through her voice.\u00a0 Otherwise, she seemed remarkably steady, her hand drifting up to touch whatever was perched on her shoulder\u2014whoever was perched on her shoulder.\u00a0 \u201cSomething about singing the songs of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat could aptly describe this wailing,\u201d Thordin growled, peering out into the fog, his gaze scything from side to side.\u00a0 \u201cThough I can\u2019t say it reads as a song to my ears.\u201d<\/p>\n

It felt could and seemed to grow colder.\u00a0 Matt could swear he saw his breath steam, but it was hard to tell as the fog kept thickening around them, pressing in, pressing close.\u00a0 There was the faint sense of magic to it, but nothing that felt inherently offensive or dangerous.<\/p>\n

That on its own was almost more unnerving than the rest of the situation.<\/p>\n

The fog seemed to swirl around them, as if it was somehow centered on them, as if it was coming<\/em> from them.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t\u2014Matt knew that for certain\u2014but he was equally certain that It meant something knew they were there, had maybe even been waiting for them.<\/p>\n

Then a voice came through the fog, spectral, wavering, barely audible amidst the keening wail.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Matt’s point of view.] Matt\u2019s heart threatened to beat right out of his chest as his arms closed around Hecate, holding her tightly against him.\u00a0 Carolyn huddled close to both he and Thordin, her eyes wide.\u00a0 … 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":[299,320,14],"tags":[150,163,171,170,194,181,149,148,168,147,165,169,146],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-16-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-carolyn-roberts","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thordin","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-129","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","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=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}