{"id":4274,"date":"2020-04-08T18:08:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2020-04-08T18:08:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:08:34","slug":"three-04-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4274","title":{"rendered":"Three – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cNow isn\u2019t a good\u2014\u201d Jacqueline glanced back over her shoulder to see who\u2019d opened the door and Kailey swallowed hard, almost retreating. She swallowed once, then again, meeting first Jacqueline\u2019s eyes and then Lin\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Her cousin sat ramrod straight in a chair, complexion washed-out, as if something was leaching the life right out of him. There were small gashes on his shoulders and upper arms, deeper ones across his chest. His lips thinned as he stared back at her.<\/p>\n

She swallowed hard again. \u201cWhat happened?\u201d she asked, her throat so tight she could barely speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong story,\u201d Lin mumbled, looking away\u2014staring at the window at the far side of the cottage, at the curtains that fluttered in the summer breeze. She had a matching set in her room at home; they\u2019d made them together the summer she turned ten from some fabric they\u2019d found in one of the storehouses. \u201cI\u2019m okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReally,\u201d she whispered, slipping inside and easing the door closed behind her. \u201cI\u2019m not sure how much I believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacqueline shook her head and turned her attention back to the rag in her hand, one already stained pink with Lin\u2019s blood. \u201cHe tangled with something that shouldn\u2019t have gotten the drop on him. He will<\/em> probably be fine assuming that nothing goes horribly sideways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kailey nodded, drifting closer. \u201cWhat was it? Where?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOut in the ravine,\u201d Lin said, closing his eyes for a second. \u201cI was just taking a walk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat jumped you out there?\u201d She stared at the wounds, a chill creeping down her spine. What could have been out there that left cuts like those? They look like claws. A wolf? That would have been more than claw marks, and those would have been in more than one place, not like the ones he has. Something else?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA camazotzi<\/em>,\u201d Jacqueline said.<\/p>\n

She froze. \u201cLike\u2014like from Uncle Phelan\u2019s stories? Those?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Jacqueline said softly. \u201cThose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Kailey Astoris’s point of view.] \u201cNow isn\u2019t a good\u2014\u201d Jacqueline glanced back over her shoulder to see who\u2019d opened the door and Kailey swallowed hard, almost retreating. She swallowed once, then again, meeting first Jacqueline\u2019s eyes … 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":[340,150,171,170,174,345,149,148,168,147,165,200,146],"class_list":["post-4274","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-jacqueline-bell","tag-kailey-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thomas-merlin-ambrose","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-16W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","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=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}