{"id":4004,"date":"2019-06-26T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2019-06-25T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T16:06:08","slug":"seventeen-07-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen – 07"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marin watched her for a few seconds before she nodded slowly.\u00a0 \u201cNone of us would want you to go anyway, no matter what was offered. \u00a0What\u2019re you thinking, plan-wise?\u00a0 Sounded like you had the beginnings of an idea.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI do,\u201d Hecate said, waving for her to sit back down.\u00a0 She found a spot to sit near the fire, drawing one knee to her chest as she gathered her thoughts and studied the faces of her friends.\u00a0 Matt didn\u2019t sit, he just paced, and for a few seconds she watched him before her gaze returned to Marin and Thom.\u00a0 \u201cI think we need to launch a preemptive strike.\u00a0 Hit him before he comes after us.\u00a0 We know what his timeline is and we have an idea of where he is.\u00a0 If the Wild Hunt will help us, I think we can do it.\u00a0 I think we can neutralize his army before it strikes us or anyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cDo you think we\u2019d be a target if he didn\u2019t want you?\u201d Thom asked quietly, his gaze steady.\u00a0 There was no malice or suspicion in his voice or his eyes, but Matt still gave him a sharp look.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hecate shook her head.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019d come no matter what.\u00a0 The fact that I\u2019m here and he wants me buys us time.\u00a0 If he doesn\u2019t already know Leinth and Seamus are here, he\u2019ll figure it out soon enough, and then there\u2019s the matter of Cameron\u2014he\u2019s descended of their blood.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cLike a lot of us are from the princes of the \u00c1es Dana or other lines,\u201d Marin murmured.\u00a0 She leaned back, laying a hand on Thom\u2019s thigh as she stared at nothing for a few seconds, lost in thought.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll have to talk to Seamus to see if he can get the Hunt to help us.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cSeamus might not need to talk to them,\u201d Matt said, looking his sister in the eye.\u00a0 \u201cI can talk to them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hecate looked at him, her brow furrowing slightly.\u00a0 \u201cDo you think they\u2019ll listen?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI know they will,\u201d Matt said, then wet his lips.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m just not sure they\u2019ll like what I have to say.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Hecate’s point of view.] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marin watched her for a few seconds before she nodded slowly.\u00a0 \u201cNone of us would want you to go anyway, no matter what was offered. \u00a0What\u2019re you thinking, plan-wise?\u00a0 Sounded like … 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":[299,321,14],"tags":[150,163,171,170,194,152,181,149,148,168,147,165,215,158,200,169,146],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-17-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-carolyn-roberts","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-marin-astoris","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-tala-johanson","tag-thom-ambrose","tag-thomas-merlin-ambrose","tag-thordin","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-12A","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}