{"id":4717,"date":"2021-10-22T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2021-10-22T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T23:09:12","slug":"twenty-five-04-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4717","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-five – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Thordin winced.\u00a0 \u201cI still\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

She shook her head slightly.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t change the past, my friend.\u00a0 It took me a long time to figure that out\u2014among other things.\u00a0 I live with the memories much easier now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cStill,\u201d Thordin murmured.\u00a0 \u201cI wish we\u2019d all known.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere wasn\u2019t anything you could have done back then,\u201d she said, slowly sipping her tea.\u00a0 \u201cI was already half drowned and their claws were in too deep.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know if C\u00edar could have saved me.\u201d\u00a0 He would have tried if we\u2019d had the opportunity\u2014but that never came, not while he was still alive.<\/em>\u00a0 She closed her eyes for a moment and sighed.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to sound odd, but it\u2019s better this way\u2014the way it ended up turning out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really think so?\u201d<\/p>\n

She nodded.\u00a0 \u201cVery much.\u00a0 I\u2019m happier now than I\u2019ve ever been, even knowing what I know, even suspecting what\u2019s to come.\u00a0 Everything\u2019s turned out much better than I ever would have dared to dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I suppose maybe it has<\/em> been for the best.\u201d\u00a0 The door creaked open as Thordin answered her, Matt stepping into view, half-soaked by the rain that had begun to drum on the roof.\u00a0 Hecate arched a brow mildly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see you didn\u2019t get things closed up fast enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

He gave her a sheepish smile.\u00a0 \u201cNo such luck.\u00a0 Tea\u2019s hot?\u201d<\/p>\n

She nodded.\u00a0 \u201cCome sit over here.\u00a0 I\u2019ll get you a blanket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt nodded, leaning in to steal a kiss even as he was careful not to drip water all over her.\u00a0 \u201cThanks.\u00a0 Then we can get down to business?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Sif gets here, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Hecate’s point of view.] Thordin winced.\u00a0 \u201cI still\u2014\u201d She shook her head slightly.\u00a0 \u201cWe can\u2019t change the past, my friend.\u00a0 It took me a long time to figure that out\u2014among other things.\u00a0 I live with 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":[336,337,375,14],"tags":[340,150,171,170,194,181,149,148,168,147,165,169,146],"class_list":["post-4717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-25-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-awakenings","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-hecate","tag-matthew-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-thordin","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-1e5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717","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=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4718,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}