{"id":4272,"date":"2020-04-06T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2020-04-06T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T17:42:31","slug":"three-03-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4272","title":{"rendered":"Three – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

She slowed down as she got closer to Lin\u2019s cottage, her heart beating hard against her breast, throat burning. What if it\u2019s not nothing? What do I do then?<\/em><\/p>\n

She couldn\u2019t imagine what not nothing<\/em> would be, but it scared her all the same.<\/p>\n

She looked around, biting her lip. Everything seemed normal, like nothing was amiss. Up on the hill, smoke curled lazily from the forge\u2019s chimney, drifting on the wind and disappearing in the trees that clung to the rim and walls of the ravine. There was the faintest scent of rain on that wind, though it was far away\u2014likely wouldn\u2019t come until night started to close in on the world. She couldn\u2019t be sure, though, not the way Astrid would be sure based on the same hints\u2014it just wasn\u2019t her gift.<\/p>\n

Her steps slowed even more as she crossed the last few yards to Lin\u2019s front door. It was almost hard to breath, heart fluttering in her chest, now, making war with the butterflies that had exploded in her belly again.<\/p>\n

What if it <\/em>is something? What would it be? What would it <\/em>mean?<\/em><\/p>\n

She was more terrified of learning the answers than of not having them at all.<\/p>\n

Biting her lip and steeling herself, she opened the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Kailey Astoris’s point of view.] She slowed down as she got closer to Lin\u2019s cottage, her heart beating hard against her breast, throat burning. What if it\u2019s not nothing? What do I do then? She couldn\u2019t … 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":[336,337,344,14],"tags":[340,150,171,170,345,149,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-03-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-kailey-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-16U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4273,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}