{"id":3570,"date":"2017-12-21T20:33:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T20:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2023-02-20T06:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T11:39:29","slug":"basilisks-creed-chapter-twenty-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/basilisks-creed-chapter-twenty-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Basilisk&#8217;s Creed: Chapter Twenty-Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><strong>Suspension<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-3428 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/TBC-Eli-300dpi-300x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">My eyes remain fixated on what I see\u2014or rather, what I <em>don\u2019t <\/em>see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Two words vanish right before me; right before my naked eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The bold, capitalized words, \u2018<strong>ATLANTIC OCEAN<\/strong>.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The <em>same <\/em>words my hand slid over while I held on to the globe for support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">I quickly bring my palms up to my face, observing my fingertips, looking for smudges of black ink.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">There are none.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Nothing to show that the writing rubbed off them, no evidence that the words had even been on the globe to begin with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><em>Maybe they weren\u2019t and I imagined them?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">My body seems to lean towards the globe again even as my heartbeat refuses to let up. My legs carry me forward without my permission, moving me even closer to the spherical antique of their own accord.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The crunch of crushed glass momentarily breaks the silence around me, an audible warning that my old, worn converse are stepping on the newly broken shards. Yet, I don\u2019t stop. Not until I\u2019m standing <em>right<\/em> in front of it, my body so close that I\u2019m practically touching it again.<\/span><\/p>\nJoin us or log in to read more.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspension &nbsp; &nbsp; My eyes remain fixated on what I see\u2014or rather, what I don\u2019t see. Two words vanish right before me; right before my naked eyes. The bold, capitalized words, \u2018ATLANTIC OCEAN.\u2019 The same words my hand slid over while I held on to the globe for support. I quickly bring my palms up to my face, observing my fingertips, looking for smudges of black ink. There are none. Nothing to show that the writing rubbed off them, no evidence that the words had even been on the globe&#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/basilisks-creed-chapter-twenty-nine\/\">Magbasa pa<\/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-3570","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\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emendedhearts.com\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}