{"id":4503,"date":"2020-12-30T17:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2020-12-30T17:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T22:44:40","slug":"fifteen-02-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4503","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen – 02"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Tory\u2019s brow furrowed deeply.\u00a0 \u201cMy cousin?\u00a0 But\u2014Mum.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think I had<\/em> any cousins.\u00a0 Whose is he?\u00a0 Uncle Seamus or Uncle Teague\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNeither.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her son frowned.\u00a0 \u201cBut you\u2014you only have two brothers, right?\u00a0 There aren\u2019t any sisters…right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Neve reached over and rested her hand on his knee.\u00a0 \u201cNo, you\u2019re right.\u00a0 There\u2019s just my brothers and I.\u00a0 But we also have Phelan and his sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

His brow furrowed, nose wrinkling.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t know that Uncle Phelan had a sister.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t talk about her,\u201d Neve admitted.\u00a0 \u201cNot anymore, not after what happened here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tory leaned back, shaking his head.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all right.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t I?\u00a0 Mum, you said one of them is my cousin like that was something important.\u00a0 Is it or isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

She felt a stab of regret, a surge of momentary, old pain.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s both,\u201d she said softly, then sighed.\u00a0 \u201cThe story is complicated, though.\u00a0 She came here once a long time ago.\u00a0 We made her leave before too long.\u00a0 She was…a bit more extreme in her reactions and beliefs than we were comfortable with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her son frowned, staring at the floor for a few seconds.\u00a0 \u201cExtreme?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wanted to kill Hecate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went rigid.\u00a0 \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat part is a longer story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh,\u201d he murmured, his lips thinning.\u00a0 He shook his head a little.\u00a0 \u201cBut one of them is\u2014is hers?\u00a0 Her child?\u201d<\/p>\n

Neve nodded.\u00a0 \u201cYes.\u00a0 And they\u2019re seeking stories she told them\u2014stories they\u2019ve heard since they were children.\u201d\u00a0 She paused and took a slow breath.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re searching for something\u2014for someone\u2014they know is out here somewhere.\u00a0 Someone that\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n

She closed her eyes.\u00a0 The words stuck in her throat and it felt as if she\u2019d never be able to make them come.\u00a0 Then, finally: \u201cFor you and Merlin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Neve’s point of view.] Tory\u2019s brow furrowed deeply.\u00a0 \u201cMy cousin?\u00a0 But\u2014Mum.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t think I had any cousins.\u00a0 Whose is he?\u00a0 Uncle Seamus or Uncle Teague\u2019s?\u201d \u201cNeither.\u201d Her son frowned.\u00a0 \u201cBut you\u2014you only have two brothers, … 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-4503","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-1aD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","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=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4504,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}