{"id":4455,"date":"2020-10-23T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2020-10-23T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T15:25:44","slug":"thirteen-04-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Thirteen – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Matt was silent for a few seconds before he sighed again.\u00a0 \u201cHow can you be so sure?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m old,\u201d she said, her tone teasing and light in ways that she never could have managed before she\u2019d found him again.\u00a0 \u201cYou learn things when you get this old.\u201d<\/p>\n

He looked back over his shoulder toward her, smiling faintly.\u00a0 \u201cIs that so?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is.\u201d\u00a0 She leaned in to kiss him gently, arm tightening around him.\u00a0 \u201cYou need to have more faith, Matt.\u00a0 I know today\u2019s been rougher than most.\u201d<\/p>\n

His gaze drifted away, back to the burial grounds.\u00a0 \u201cAnd I\u2019ve just telegraphed that to everyone by coming out here, haven\u2019t I?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe a little,\u201d Hecate admitted.\u00a0 \u201cBut the people who know more understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

His head dipped.\u00a0 \u201cWhy did they put me in charge?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been over this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know.\u00a0 I know.\u201d\u00a0 He straightened, bracing his hands against the top rail of the fence.\u00a0 \u201cDoesn\u2019t mean that I like it any more or any less.\u00a0 I just\u2014why didn\u2019t they at least give me a choice?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause there wasn\u2019t<\/em> a choice, Matt.\u00a0 It was always going to be you.\u00a0 No matter what, it was going to be you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Hecate’s point of view.] Matt was silent for a few seconds before he sighed again.\u00a0 \u201cHow can you be so sure?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m old,\u201d she said, her tone teasing and light in ways that she never could … 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":[336,337,357,14],"tags":[340,150,171,170,194,181,148,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-13-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-19R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4456,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}