{"id":4276,"date":"2020-04-10T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2020-04-10T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T13:32:33","slug":"three-05-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"Three – 05"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cIt shouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d Lin said, lips barely moving. He stared out the window again but there was something about the look on his face that told Kailey that he wasn\u2019t actually looking<\/em> at anything out there, just staring off into nothing. She\u2019d seen the look before.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course<\/em> it shouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d she said, coming closer. \u201cThose things are supposed to be gone. They\u2019re not supposed to bother us anymore.\u201d She looked at Jacqueline. \u201cRight?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacqueline didn\u2019t look at her. \u201cLin, flex your arm a little for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He winced but obeyed. A trickle of blood oozed from one of the gashes in his biceps and he winced.<\/p>\n

Kailey took a step closer. \u201cRight, Aunt Jac?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a lot more complicated than that, Kailey,\u201d Jacqueline said, starting to clean the oozing wound. Lin hissed in pain but held still except for a slight flinch and a contortion of his expression.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you mean it\u2019s more complicated? You guys stopped them before I was born. They never get close, they never hit us. They\u2019re afraid<\/em> of all of you.\u201d Kailey was much closer now, barely a foot away. Closer up, the gashes look nastier, and she could tell that they were from claws. They had already started to look red and angry around the edges and that made her stomach drop.<\/p>\n

What could all of those monsters of old really do<\/em>? What did one attacking Lin so close to the Valley actually mean<\/em>?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey weren\u2019t afraid,\u201d Jacqueline said, a note of bitterness in her voice. \u201cNot afraid enough, anyway. There was an agreement and now it\u2019s breaking down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAn agreement<\/em>?\u201d The urge to make her aunt face her rose sharply but Kailey restrained herself, knowing that her aunt was working and that it was work that she didn\u2019t actually want to interrupt. \u201cWhy would we have an agreement with monsters and things that were attacking us?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said,\u201d Jacqueline repeated. \u201cIt\u2019s complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Kailey Astoris’s point of view.] \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t have happened,\u201d Lin said, lips barely moving. He stared out the window again but there was something about the look on his face that told Kailey that he wasn\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],"tags":[340,150,171,170,174,345,149,148,168,147,165,200,146],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-03-book-8","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-16Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}