{"id":4730,"date":"2022-01-12T17:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:53:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:53:49","slug":"twenty-six-04-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-six – 04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\u201cGods and monster, I hate you sometimes,\u201d Kailey muttered, glaring in a decidedly different direction from where Peril sat beside her.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut only sometimes,\u201d he said.\u00a0 His hand dropped onto her knee and for a few seconds, she stared at it like it was some kind of slug that had suddenly taken up residence on her jeans.\u00a0 This time, when he pressed, his voice was gentler.\u00a0 \u201cLook, Kay.\u00a0 I get it.\u00a0 Shit\u2019s happening fast. It\u2019s completely normal to be totally out of sorts because of all of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s cool.\u00a0 We\u2019ll get through it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have no idea what\u2019s going on,\u201d she muttered, glaring at his hand, now, instead of staring off in an opposite direction.\u00a0 \u201cHow could you possibly know what I\u2019m going through right now?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019re are a lot of lies I can spin about that,\u201d Peril said, taking a sip of his tea.\u00a0 \u201cBut that would be wasting a hell of a lot more of our time than I really feel like wasting.\u00a0 I eavesdropped when our visitors<\/em> were talking to Uncle Matt and the council, then I spied on the council a few hours ago while you were probably brooding or yelling at Lin for something that may or may not be his fault.\u00a0 I know why they\u2019re here and I can infer a lot more from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReally,\u201d she said dryly.\u00a0 \u201cCan you?\u201d<\/p>\n

He shrugged.\u00a0 \u201cI think so.\u00a0 Especially based on Tory\u2019s behavior today, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTory,\u201d she echoed.\u00a0 \u201cWhat does Tory\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t like to me, Kay.\u00a0 Remember, I heard a lot of what they talked about.\u00a0 I know what they\u2019re looking for and if you ask me, no one fits that bill like Tory does.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kailey snarled, pushing to her feet and starting to pace.\u00a0 \u201cIs it so awful that I don\u2019t<\/em> want to do what they\u2019re asking us?\u00a0 That maybe I don\u2019t want to go?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah,\u201d Peril said, leaning back.\u00a0 \u201cYeah, it really is.\u00a0 That\u2019s nuts, Kay.\u00a0 Really, really nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This post is from Kailey Astoris’s point of view.] \u201cGods and monster, I hate you sometimes,\u201d Kailey muttered, glaring in a decidedly different direction from where Peril sat beside her. \u201cBut only sometimes,\u201d he said.\u00a0 His hand dropped onto her … 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":[336,337,376,14],"tags":[340,150,377,171,170,345,149,148,168,147,165,146],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambrose-cycle","category-book-8","category-chapter-26-book-8","category-story","tag-ambrose-cycle","tag-awakenings","tag-breanainn-cael-ocredne","tag-fantasy","tag-fiction","tag-kailey-astoris","tag-original-fiction","tag-post-apocalyptic","tag-serial","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story","tag-web-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EBlN-1ei","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4731,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}