{"id":4500,"date":"2020-12-28T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4500"},"modified":"2020-12-28T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T22:36:55","slug":"fifteen-01-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4500","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen – 01"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cWho are the strangers, Mum?\u00a0 Why are they here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Neve froze for a few seconds at the sound of her son\u2019s voice, relief warring with sudden anguish.\u00a0 Of course he\u2019d have heard there were strangers, and of course he\u2019d want to know more.\u00a0 In that, he was like both of them\u2014like both her and Cameron\u2014and damnably so at that.\u00a0 She set down the blanket she was folding and turned to face him where he stood in the doorway to her room, his expression just shy of anguished.\u00a0 Her breath caught.<\/p>\n

\u201cCro\u00ed daor<\/em>,\u201d she said softly, beckoning him into the room she\u2019d long shared with his father.\u00a0 \u201cWhere were you two?\u00a0 I was worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFishing,\u201d he said as he eased inside.\u00a0 \u201cOut at the lakeshore.\u00a0 Didn\u2019t hear any horns or sense anything amiss.\u00a0 We wouldn\u2019t have known anything happened if people didn\u2019t keep asking where the hell we were.\u201d\u00a0 Artorius frowned.\u00a0 \u201cLin said that you\u2019d have answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not nearly so many as you\u2019d like, I think.<\/em>\u00a0 Her lips thinned slightly and she nodded, waving for him to sit down on the bed with her.\u00a0 Tory frowned, but sat, his gaze intent on her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s never a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neve choked on a laugh and shook her head.\u00a0 \u201cI suppose it\u2019s not, is it?\u00a0 I don\u2019t have many answers and I imagine what I\u2019m able to tell you will only spark more questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now all I have are<\/em> questions, Mum.\u00a0 Some answers would be welcome no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what you think now.<\/em>\u00a0 She sat down with him on the bed, drawing one leg up beneath her and watching his face, his eyes.\u00a0 He looked so much like his father sometimes it made her ache, though she knew that Cameron saw more of her in his son than she did.\u00a0 Perhaps each of them were just seeing what they loved in the faces of their children.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo who are they?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of them is your cousin.\u00a0 The rest are his friends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Neve’s point of view.] \u201cWho are the strangers, Mum?\u00a0 Why are they here?\u201d Neve froze for a few seconds at the sound of her son\u2019s voice, relief warring with sudden anguish.\u00a0 Of course he\u2019d have heard … 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":[336,337,364,14],"tags":[340,271,150,171,170,151,149,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-15-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-artorius-mackenzie","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-neve-vaughan","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-1aA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}