{"id":3598,"date":"2017-12-22T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2023-02-20T07:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:15:48","slug":"basilisks-creed-chapter-forty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/basilisks-creed-chapter-forty-two\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basilisk&#8217;s Creed: Chapter Forty-Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>A Candle in the Wind<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3429 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Matthiel-300dpi-300x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"82\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">I struggle to swallow as I recall the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Deep down, I think he already knew.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Just as I did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In his Reaper&#8217;s Intuition, he knew she was gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Still, <em>hearing <\/em>the words out loud, <em>witnessing <\/em>his worst fear manifest itself, was more than he could bear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">More than <em>anyone<\/em> could bear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He\u2019d shut down\u2014completely and absolutely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He didn&#8217;t speak, didn&#8217;t move, didn&#8217;t do <em>irgendetwas<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><em>Couldn\u2019t<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">It was not the reaction I was expecting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">And it freaked me out a lot more than I want to admit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He refused to leave the Holding Chamber, insisting he couldn\u2019t go anywhere else. He was in too much shock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Soorah was the love of his life. Of his entire existence. He couldn\u2019t reap her soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Er <em>wouldn\u2019t<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\nJoin us or log in to read more.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Candle in the Wind &nbsp; &nbsp; I struggle to swallow as I recall the incident. Deep down, I think he already knew. Just as I did. In his Reaper&#8217;s Intuition, he knew she was gone. Still, hearing the words out loud, witnessing his worst fear manifest itself, was more than he could bear. More than anyone could bear. He\u2019d shut down\u2014completely and absolutely. He didn&#8217;t speak, didn&#8217;t move, didn&#8217;t do anything. Couldn\u2019t. It was not the reaction I was expecting. And it freaked me out a lot more than&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/basilisks-creed-chapter-forty-two\/\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"series":[101],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ongoing","series-the-basilisks-creed"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Wattpad-Header-1024x341.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Wattpad-Header-300x100.jpg","large":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Wattpad-Header-1024x341.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}