{"id":4615,"date":"2021-05-19T09:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2021-05-19T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:10:41","slug":"twenty-03-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4615","title":{"rendered":"Twenty – 03"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cMe,\u201d David said quietly.\u00a0 \u201cAt least\u2014at least, that\u2019s my guess.\u201d\u00a0 He swallowed hard, then cleared his throat.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m\u2014never mind.\u00a0 I\u2019m Aoife O\u2019Credne\u2019s son.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGrey Miller\u2019s your dad,\u201d Lin said, his gaze bouncing between David and his companion.\u00a0 \u201cRight?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bryant leaned against the doorframe, watching as Isabelle\u2019s fingers tangled in David\u2019s and squeezed.\u00a0 His throat tightened momentarily and he wondered what was going through David\u2019s head right now this second.\u00a0 He hadn\u2019t met anyone he was related to by blood\u2014not yet, anyway\u2014since they\u2019d left home.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what I\u2019d do if I was him.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t know how to feel, what to think.<\/em><\/p>\n

David smiled wryly.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019d ask how you knew who my dad was, but I\u2019m guessing\u2014I\u2019m guessing there were at least a couple stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lin nodded.\u00a0 \u201cA couple.\u00a0 Our parents only met him that one time when he and Aoife came looking for Uncle Phelan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey never came back for good reason,\u201d his companion murmured, then shook himself and took a breath.\u00a0 He crossed toward David\u2019s bed and held out his hand.\u00a0 \u201cSorry.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t be like that.\u00a0 I\u2019m Tory.\u00a0 Neve\u2019s my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

David took his hand and shook it, watching Tory\u2019s face.\u00a0 Bryant watched them both, trying to ignore the tension that coiled his own muscles like a spring.<\/p>\n

There was something<\/em> in the look the two young men shared that put him on edge and it seemed that it was for no good reason at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course it would be here,\u201d David murmured into the sudden silence as he continued to stare up at his cousin.\u00a0 \u201cWhy didn\u2019t I realize that sooner?\u201d<\/p>\n

The only person in the room that didn\u2019t look surprised by the words was Lin, who just stared on with a distance in his eyes but a sad, knowing smile curving his lips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Bryant Tapping’s point of view.] \u201cMe,\u201d David said quietly.\u00a0 \u201cAt least\u2014at least, that\u2019s my guess.\u201d\u00a0 He swallowed hard, then cleared his throat.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m\u2014never mind.\u00a0 I\u2019m Aoife O\u2019Credne\u2019s son.\u201d \u201cGrey Miller\u2019s your dad,\u201d Lin said, his gaze … 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":[336,337,369,14],"tags":[340,271,150,358,359,171,170,360,350,149,148,168,147,165,200,146],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-20-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-artorius-mackenzie","tag-awakenings","tag-bryant-tapping","tag-david-ocredne-miller","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-isabelle-squires","tag-knights-errant","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thomas-merlin-ambrose","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-1cr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}