{"id":11404,"date":"2017-09-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2017-08-26T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T21:47:28","slug":"the-sword-keeper-excerpt-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/the-sword-keeper-excerpt-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sword Keeper \u2014 excerpt 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cImeris!\u201d<\/p>\n

Tamuna reached out into the darkness and found her arms tangled in something thick and woolly. Her eyes snapped open, but a wave of disorientation and nausea made it difficult to tell which way was up and which was down. Before she could take stock of her surroundings, though, hands held her down and a warm, wet towel was draped over her forehead.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2026 where\u2026\u201d she stammered, then blinked and looked up at the people standing above her. Almost immediately, she recognized Aunt Sopiko, her habitually stern expression softened by deep concern. The sight of a familiar face calmed Tamuna considerably.<\/p>\n

\u201cTamuna!\u201d said Sopiko. \u201cYou\u2019re awake now, I see. Are you all right?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think so,\u201d said Tamuna. She tried to sit up, but her arms were weak and she soon collapsed back against the pillow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere now\u2014give her something to drink,\u201d came a voice from off to her right. A sheepskin flask was pressed to her lips, and a spurt of deliciously cool water dribbled into her mouth. She swallowed, coughed, and reached up to take hold of the flask herself. As she drank, her strength slowly returned.<\/p>\n

Where am I?<\/span><\/em> she wondered. It didn\u2019t take long to recognize that she was back in the tavern, lying on her aunt\u2019s bed in the master bedroom. A crowd of strangers had gathered around her, many of them dressed in the same gold-embroidered tunic that the traveler had been wearing. The sun was already shining through the western window, indicating that it was almost evening.<\/span><\/p>\n

She coughed and put the flask aside. \u201cHow long has it been since\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost a full day,\u201d said her aunt. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve been so worried, we closed the tavern to tend to you.\u201d She held out a spoonful of porridge and all but forced it down Tamuna\u2019s throat. \u201cNo more questions\u2014now you must eat.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Tamuna almost choked on the first spoonful, but soon forced it down. Her aunt had mixed some raisins in, which meant she was more concerned than angry. Still, Tamuna couldn\u2019t help but chide herself. A full day\u2014that was a lot of lost business. With the sun already setting, there was no chance they\u2019d be up and open again in time for the evening. The bar would be empty tonight, and it was her fault.<\/p>\n

But if that was true, who were all these strangers?<\/p>\n

She scanned the room between spoonfuls of porridge until her eyes finally fell on the silver-haired traveler. He stood by the door, his arms folded and a look of deep solemnity across his face. Her eyes strayed to the wall behind his back and the dull green emerald that sat just above his left shoulder. With a start, she recognized the corded hilt of the sword Imeris, with the emerald set squarely in the pommel. For a fleeting instance, she saw the face of the young man from the vision.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cImeris?\u201d she said, reaching out with her hand. Instantly, the room fell silent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was that?\u201d her aunt asked. \u201cNever mind. Don\u2019t overexert yourself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHold on,\u201d said the old traveler, stepping forward. He looked Tamuna straight in the eye as he unstrapped the scabbard and held it up before her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you speaking of this?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cImeris!\u201d Tamuna reached out into the darkness and found her arms tangled in something thick and woolly. Her eyes snapped open, but a wave of disorientation and nausea made it difficult to tell which way was up and which was down. Before she could take stock of her surroundings, though, hands held her down and… Continue reading The Sword Keeper \u2014 excerpt 5<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[650,932],"tags":[474],"class_list":["post-11404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sk","category-twelfth-sword-trilogy","tag-excerpts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2XW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11424,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11404\/revisions\/11424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}