{"id":4116,"date":"2019-10-11T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2019-10-11T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:23:47","slug":"twenty-four-05-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4116","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-four – 05"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I stared after her for a few seconds before I turned back to the ravine, brooding. She wasn\u2019t wrong about needing to collect my thoughts, but in some ways, I didn\u2019t appreciate being left alone with them.<\/p>\n

That could be dangerous, sometimes, and now was one of those times.<\/p>\n

My eyes unfocused as I kept staring out over the ravine, the branches and leaves blending together into a blot of green, brown, and gray. My breathing slowed, my stomach slowly turning sour, muscles tightening painfully. I sank down to my knees, fingertips brushing the grass and dirt alongside the edge of the ravine, the power of the wards washing over me as I leaned forward into the line of them. Their touch was almost soothing\u2014almost.<\/p>\n

I tried to tamp down on the visions that tried to swarm up, the echoes of things I\u2019d seen before, the things that opened up a raw ache inside of me. They piled up against a dam behind my eyes and I swallowed hard, squeezing them tightly shut even as my hands curled into fists.<\/p>\n

Keep it together. Dammit, keep it together.<\/em><\/p>\n

That was all I wanted\u2014that, and not to relive those visions over again. I\u2019d seen them enough. I knew what they told me. The last thing I needed was another distraction on the eve of what we were about to do. Besides, there was nothing else I could learn from them, not now.<\/p>\n

Was there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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