{"id":4505,"date":"2021-01-04T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4505"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:08:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T00:08:41","slug":"fifteen-03-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4505","title":{"rendered":"Fifteen – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Tory stared at her in silence, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, for long enough that she thought that she\u2019d erred in telling him.\u00a0 Finally, though, he cleared his throat and croaked, \u201cMe and Lin?\u00a0 Why the hell would anyone be looking for us, Mum?\u201d<\/p>\n

How could she put it in a way that wouldn\u2019t result in complete and utter panic?\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t as if he hadn\u2019t been raised on all the same stories as the others\u2014none of them had escaped that.\u00a0 He knew enough about her history and his father\u2019s that she hoped, at least, he\u2019d be able to accept at least some of it for what it was, able to take some of it at face value.<\/p>\n

But is that an assumption that it\u2019s safe for me to make?<\/em><\/p>\n

Her eyes slid shut for a moment.\u00a0 She and Cameron had tried to shelter them as best they could without denying reality\u2014and then there was an open question of how much Marin and Thom had known and not talked about.\u00a0 She suspected\u2014had always suspected\u2014that it was much more than they realized.<\/p>\n

Lin has all of their journals.\u00a0 I wonder how much is in there that we never knew.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMum?\u201d<\/p>\n

She sighed and scrubbed a hand over her face.\u00a0 \u201cBecause there are prophecies, Tory.\u00a0 There are stories and prophecies that center around certain figures and certain bloodlines.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike yours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLike ours<\/em>,\u201d she corrected gently.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s yours, too, Tory.\u201d<\/p>\n

He blushed and looked down.\u00a0 \u201cI guess so.\u00a0 I just\u2014I just don\u2019t understand.\u00a0 Lin said to ask you.\u00a0 Why do I get the feeling that you\u2019d love to tell me to ask him?\u201d<\/p>\n

Neve laughed.\u00a0 \u201cBecause you\u2019re not wrong.\u00a0 I\u2019m starting to wonder how much he\u2019s already come to realize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing Lin?\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 Should I bug Uncle Phelan?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour uncle\u2019s had a long day,\u201d Neve said, shaking her head with a faint smile.\u00a0 \u201cLet him get some sleep.\u00a0 You\u2019ll meet our visitors tomorrow, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, so I\u2019ll be able to ask them<\/em> for answers.\u201d<\/p>\n

She reached over and squeezed his knee.\u00a0 \u201cIf that\u2019s what you choose to do, yes.\u00a0 Yes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Neve’s point of view.] Tory stared at her in silence, wide-eyed and slack-jawed, for long enough that she thought that she\u2019d erred in telling him.\u00a0 Finally, though, he cleared his throat and croaked, \u201cMe and Lin?\u00a0 … 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-4505","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-1aF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505","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=4505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4506,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4505\/revisions\/4506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}