{"id":4213,"date":"2020-02-07T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4213"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:21:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:21:41","slug":"twenty-nine-04-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4213","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-nine &#8211; 04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[This post is from Neve&#8217;s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you,\u201d Neve whispered. She leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his forehead. Seamus smiled crookedly, cracking an eye open to look up at her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo did you draw the short straw, then?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat short straw?\u201d she asked as she settled back into her chair at his bedside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaying behind and keeping an eye on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh.\u201d Neve smiled weakly even as the bottom dropped out of her stomach. \u201cNo, nothing like that. I\u2014there needed to be someone here who could lead if things went badly, who could organize whatever needed to happen next. I volunteered to be that person after Hecate and Tala both said they were going whether we liked it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seamus stared at her. \u201cHecate went with them, too?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neve nodded. \u201cShe said she wasn\u2019t going to be left behind. Marin and Phelan backed her up and Matt couldn\u2019t argue against all three of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seamus smiled a little. \u201cHe could have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the outcome would have been the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This post is from Neve&#8217;s point of view.] \u201cThank you,\u201d Neve whispered. She leaned forward and pressed a kiss to his forehead. Seamus smiled crookedly, cracking an eye open to look up at her. \u201cSo did you draw the short &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4213\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4213","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-15X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4214,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions\/4214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}