{"id":4197,"date":"2020-01-20T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4197"},"modified":"2020-01-19T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T01:19:03","slug":"twenty-eight-09-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4197","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-eight – 09"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cSounds like it should work,\u201d Thordin said, his brow furrowing for a few seconds. \u201cNothing else is changing?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot unless any of you see a reason to change the plan. I don\u2019t.\u201d I took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, glancing toward Hecate. \u201cAre you still up for this?\u201d<\/p>\n

She nodded. \u201cYes,\u201d she said, not even a tremor in her voice. \u201cAbsolutely. This is the only way we make sure that we\u2019re safe from him. Maybe more than just him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my thought, too,\u201d I said. I looked out over the field again. \u201cAll right. Let\u2019s start getting everyone in position. Is there anything I can help with, Hecate?\u201d<\/p>\n

She hesitated for a second, edged closer to the lip of the rise, peering through the brush, watching the motion of the men in the camp below\u2014and the movements of the things that couldn\u2019t be called human at all. Then she shook her head slowly. \u201cNo,\u201d she said, her voice soft. \u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so. Not before this starts, anyway. The first steps are ones I have to take myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut after?\u201d<\/p>\n

She smiled briefly. \u201cI might need some strength to borrow and lean on.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat I can do,\u201d I said quietly. \u201cThat, I can do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGood,\u201d she murmured. \u201cBecause I think I can do it. It\u2019s just not going to be easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the dangerous and important things aren\u2019t,\u201d Phelan muttered.<\/p>\n

Hecate snorted softly. \u201cToo true, Wanderer. Too true.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Marin’s point of view.] \u201cSounds like it should work,\u201d Thordin said, his brow furrowing for a few seconds. \u201cNothing else is changing?\u201d \u201cNot unless any of you see a reason to change the plan. I don\u2019t.\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":[299,333,14],"tags":[150,171,170,194,152,181,149,173,148,168,147,167,165,169,146],"class_list":["post-4197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-28-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-marin-astoris","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-phelan-ocredne","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-sif","tag-story","tag-thordin","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-15H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197","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=4197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4197\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}