{"id":4563,"date":"2021-03-10T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4563"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:24:42","slug":"seventeen-05-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4563","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen – 05"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This post is from David O’Credne Miller’s point of view.]<\/em><\/p>\n

The light was brighter when he opened his eyes and he mumbled a curse, shifting in the bed and immediately squeezing his eyes shut again.\u00a0 \u201cDamn.\u00a0 Why\u2019d you turn the lamp up?\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he heard Issy\u2019s voice and realized that his eyes might have been closed a lot<\/em> longer than then moment he\u2019d intended.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s awake again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTurn down the lamp,\u201d he said, his voice rusty all over again.\u00a0 \u201cIt hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnsurprisingly,\u201d the voice of the healer he\u2019d met that morning said.\u00a0 \u201cYou know, none of you said what actually hit you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019d believe us if we told you,\u201d Lilah said, a thread of bitterness in her voice.\u00a0 \u201cNo one ever really does.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll find we\u2019re a bit different from the usual isolated settlement here,\u201d the healer said, a certain primness to her tone that David found oddly reassuring.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t antagonize her,\u201d he said, shifting in the bed.\u00a0 Everything still hurt, but the edges seemed like they\u2019d come off.\u00a0 Then Issy was there, her arm sliding beneath his shoulders to help him shift his position in the bed.\u00a0 \u201cThis is the place we\u2019ve been looking for.\u201d\u00a0 His hand shook a little as he rubbed his eyes, blinking through tears that came from the light.\u00a0 He looked across the room to the healer, who sat at a small table with Bryant not terribly far away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it?\u201d\u00a0 Lilah glanced at him with a quirked brow.\u00a0 \u201cHow can you be sure this time?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just know,\u201d he said, wincing as he watched her share a look with Travis\u2014full of the skepticism and hope he\u2019d come to expect from his friends.<\/p>\n

I never should have dragged any of them into this.\u00a0 This was my quest, not theirs.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have to come.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t have let them.<\/em><\/p>\n

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[This post is from David O’Credne Miller’s point of view.] The light was brighter when he opened his eyes and he mumbled a curse, shifting in the bed and immediately squeezing his eyes shut again.\u00a0 \u201cDamn.\u00a0 Why\u2019d you turn the … 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":[336,337,366,14],"tags":[340,150,358,359,171,170,360,174,350,361,149,148,168,147,165,362,146],"class_list":["post-4563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-17-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-awakenings","tag-bryant-tapping","tag-david-ocredne-miller","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-isabelle-squires","tag-jacqueline-bell","tag-knights-errant","tag-lilah-watson","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-travis-kenwick","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-1bB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563","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=4563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4563\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}