{"id":4211,"date":"2020-02-05T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2020-02-04T19:34:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:34:10","slug":"twenty-nine-03-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4211","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-nine – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Neve\u2019s heart seized and she grasped for both of his hands. \u201cHow do you know that? How do you know? Is it Leinth? Can you sense her?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only her,\u201d Seamus said, squeezing his eyes shut for a few seconds before he opened them again, meeting her gaze with a weak, rueful smile. \u201cThe Hunt, Neve. It\u2019ll never not be a part of me. I can feel when a battle\u2019s joined. There\u2019s an ache in me because I\u2019m not there with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are exactly<\/em> where they need you to be,\u201d she whispered fiercely, squeezing his hands so hard her knuckles went white. Seamus winced slightly and looked away.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe,\u201d he allowed, his voice little more than an exhaled breath. \u201cMaybe not. The enemy they face is one of my making.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou<\/em> did not make Orcus,\u201d Neve said. \u201cDon\u2019t start that. That\u2019s not a burden you need to shoulder. We\u2019ve been over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHave we?\u201d he murmured, leaning his head back and staring at the ceiling. \u201cI sure as hell don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSeamus.\u201d<\/p>\n

He sighed, closing his eyes again. It was a sigh she\u2019d heard a thousand times when they were young, before their father was gone, before they shouldered as many burdens as they did now.<\/p>\n

Not we. Me. Before I shouldered as many burdens. Seamus always seemed to carry the weight of more than his share, even then. Maybe he did and Teague and I just never knew. Maybe.<\/em> She took a breath. \u201cSeamus, please,\u201d she said softly. \u201cDon\u2019t do that and don\u2019t do this to yourself. For once in your whole bloody life don\u2019t take the weight of a problem onto your shoulders. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was silent for what felt like a long time, staring at the ceiling again before he finally spoke. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTry,\u201d Neve said as she squeezed his hands again. \u201cPlease. For all of us, just try.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll right,\u201d he murmured, then sighed again. It was a different sigh this time, though, one that was quiet, tired, not the familiar long-suffering sigh that she\u2019d heard so often. \u201cI\u2019ll try.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Neve’s point of view.] Neve\u2019s heart seized and she grasped for both of his hands. \u201cHow do you know that? How do you know? Is it Leinth? Can you sense her?\u201d \u201cNot only her,\u201d Seamus said, … 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":[299,334,14],"tags":[150,171,170,151,149,148,159,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-7","category-chapter-29-book-7","category-story","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-neve-vaughan","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-seamus-vaughan","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-15V","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","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=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}