{"id":4368,"date":"2020-07-22T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4368"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:48:02","slug":"eight-07-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4368","title":{"rendered":"Eight – 07"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

As I approached, no one really looked at me\u2014all of them seemed far more intent on what they were doing. I could hear my uncle\u2019s voice from the wall, but I didn\u2019t see him right away. The sentries up in the watchtowers didn\u2019t give me even a single glance, their gazes and aims pointed out toward what had always been called the killing fields beneath the walls. Even my parents\u2019 journals called them that, as uncomfortable as it seemed to make them to make the reference.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s hard to deny something so true. There had been more than a few battles fought on the grounds before the walls, enough that every few years, Phelan, my mother, my aunt, and Uncle J.T. would walk the ground before the walls, meter by meter, cleansing and sending any of the lingering dead. After my mother was gone, Neve had taken her place, though I always got the sense that it went hard on her\u2014though I\u2019d never asked her why. It just seemed wrong to bring it up.<\/p>\n

Last time when I\u2019d watched, Phelan had hinted that he\u2019d be teaching me how to do it the next time around. I wasn\u2019t sure how I felt about that, either.<\/p>\n

But then, Angie had warned me it might be so before she\u2019d left a few years ago. With her gone, I was the next logical choice for Phelan to train\u2014something she\u2019d known long before I\u2019d realized what it meant.<\/p>\n

Everyone up on the wall was armed, I realized as I drew closer\u2014everyone except for Kailey. I didn\u2019t see Tory or Anne, which meant either they hadn\u2019t made it back inside the walls or they\u2019d been sent below with the others.<\/p>\n

Neither instance quite made sense, but I supposed their absence depended on where they were when the alarm sounded. If they were out in the far fields, or minding the flocks, it might have been that they were too far.<\/p>\n

Still…I had a bad feeling.<\/p>\n

So what else is new?<\/em><\/p>\n

Nothing\u2014at least not yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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