{"id":4665,"date":"2021-07-14T09:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2021-07-14T09:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:49:08","slug":"twenty-three-02-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-three – 02"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

My throat tightened.\u00a0 \u201cBecause of Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n

When they\u2019d gone, something had been afflicting my mother for a while by then, though no one seemed to know what it was.\u00a0 I\u2019d heard whispers of it being linked to her talent, to her ability to peer into the future and see the possibilities\u2014more correctly than not.\u00a0 It was a power linked to something<\/em>, but no one ever seemed to know what that something was, and no one could figure out how to make her better once she\u2019d started to get sick.<\/p>\n

I tried not to remember those parts.\u00a0 I always tried to just remember her<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s more complicated than that,\u201d Carolyn said, her gaze straying to me for a few seconds before it drifted to the headstones.\u00a0 \u201cYour father was determined to save her, no matter what.\u00a0 Your mother?\u00a0 She was determined to save all of us\u2014or, at the very least, ensure the peace held a little longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all right,\u201d she murmured.\u00a0 \u201cLike, I said, it\u2019s complicated.\u00a0 When you were a baby, Marin brokered a peace with a lot of the nastiness in this world that was trying to overtake it and us.\u00a0 She forced a truce on them, bought us time.\u00a0 When your parents left, we could see signs of that truce being tested.\u00a0 Your parents both thought that their departure would help solidify the peace for a little longer\u2014and they were right.\u00a0 They bought us another five years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes.\u00a0 Until now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Thomas Merlin Ambrose’s point of view.] My throat tightened.\u00a0 \u201cBecause of Mom?\u201d When they\u2019d gone, something had been afflicting my mother for a while by then, though no one seemed to know what it was.\u00a0 I\u2019d … 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":[336,337,373,14],"tags":[340,150,163,171,170,149,148,168,147,165,200,146],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-23-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-awakenings","tag-carolyn-roberts","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","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-1df","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","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=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}