{"id":4199,"date":"2020-01-22T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2020-01-21T18:02:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T23:02:31","slug":"twenty-nine-01-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-nine – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

By her calculation, they would have reached the camp by now. Perhaps the fighting had already started. She had no way to know. Neve\u2019s fingers curled a little tighter around the book that lay open in her lap. She had read the same passage five times and didn\u2019t remember a single word.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no distracting myself from it. No chance at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

She exhaled a sigh and scrubbed one hand over her face.<\/p>\n

In the bed in front of her, Seamus stirred. She swallowed a curse. The fear welled up, twice as bad as it had been a few moments before.<\/p>\n

Did Leinth get to tell him before they left? Does he know what\u2019s going on? Oh, gods and monsters, am I going to have to break the news to him that they\u2019ve ridden off to war without us?<\/em><\/p>\n

How would her brother react to that<\/em>?<\/p>\n

She marked her place in the book and set it aside, leaning a little closer, peering at her brother\u2019s pale face. He made another quiet sound, then seemed to settle again, going still but for the rise and fall of his chest.<\/p>\n

Shivering slightly, Neve settled back again, watching him, fingers bunching in the fabric of her pants.<\/p>\n

I still have time, then. I still have time to figure out what to say, if I need to say it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Time probably wouldn\u2019t help, though.<\/p>\n

Lips thinning, she stood up, starting to pace, her stocking-feet steps silent against the wood planks. The twins slept in their baskets in the corner, full from a feeding half an hour before\u2014that, too, had been a welcome distraction from her fear and worry.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t distract yourself forever. The world won\u2019t let you, will it?<\/em><\/p>\n

Her thoughts drifted back to Cameron, to Phelan, to all of the rest. She shuddered, biting her lip.<\/p>\n

What if they didn\u2019t come home? What would they do then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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