{"id":4637,"date":"2021-06-11T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4637"},"modified":"2021-06-11T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:44:52","slug":"twenty-one-04-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4637","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cIt\u2019s not an easy path,\u201d David said, fidgeting again.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve been able to figure out that much.\u00a0 But in the end, it\u2019s worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is?\u201d\u00a0 Tory said, twisting back toward him.\u00a0 \u201cWhich part?\u201d\u00a0 He scrubbed both hands over his face and raked his fingers back through his hair.\u00a0 \u201cThis feels like some kind of curse\u2014something that happened because of my parents and their parents and all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, you\u2019re not wrong about it being in part because of them,\u201d Phelan said.\u00a0 \u201cBut it\u2019s not a curse, Tory.\u00a0 It\u2019s no more a curse than, say, being the Taliesin or the Taliesin\u2019s heir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lin winced slightly, staring off into space for a few seconds.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think of it like that, Uncle Phelan.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know you don\u2019t,\u201d Phelan said.\u00a0 Though that certainly confirms that he\u2019s figured it out, hasn\u2019t he?<\/em>\u00a0 \u201cBut some people would.\u201d\u00a0 He glanced at his nephew, then at Tory.\u00a0 \u201cYou walk whatever path you choose, Tory,\u201d he said quietly, gently.\u00a0 \u201cBut you know as well as I do that sometimes life has a way of bringing you back to things that you thought you\u2019d escaped from\u2014thought you didn\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2014Uncle Phelan\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all right,\u201d Phelan said, then smiled, looking at David again.\u00a0 \u201cGray remembered the stories, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n

He nodded slowly.\u00a0 \u201cDad and Aunt Teca did, yeah.\u00a0 They were…well.\u00a0 They were fairy tales and bedtime stories until they weren\u2019t anymore.\u201d\u00a0 He closed his eyes and sighed.\u00a0 \u201cI catch glimpses of what was and what might be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLin has a similar gift,\u201d Phelan murmured.\u00a0 \u201cHis parents were both Seers.\u00a0 Seems you\u2019ve a touch of that, too.\u201d\u00a0 The question is, how much of a touch does he have\u2014and is there more to him than just that, I wonder?<\/em><\/p>\n

One way or another, he\u2019d likely soon find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Phelan’s point of view.] \u201cIt\u2019s not an easy path,\u201d David said, fidgeting again.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve been able to figure out that much.\u00a0 But in the end, it\u2019s worth it.\u201d \u201cWhat is?\u201d\u00a0 Tory said, twisting back toward him.\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":[336,337,370,14],"tags":[340,271,150,358,359,171,170,360,350,149,173,148,168,147,165,200,146],"class_list":["post-4637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-21-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-phelan-ocredne","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-1cN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637","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=4637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4637\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}