{"id":27597,"date":"2014-12-25T06:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27597"},"modified":"2014-12-23T22:01:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:01:41","slug":"on-the-first-day-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/on-the-first-day-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"An Epic Christmas: On The First Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/10\/whats-coming-up-on-anything-really-another-great-week\/daughter-of-blood-tile\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20854\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20854\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg\" alt=\"Daughter of Blood Tile\" width=\"109\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-109x300.jpg 109w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daughter-of-Blood-Tile-54x150.jpg 54w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 109px) 100vw, 109px\" \/><\/a>On the first day of Christmas my true Muse sent to me&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h3><em>One<\/em> Chosen Hero!<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8216;<span style=\"color: #000080;\">She lifted her face to the moon, caught in the net of tree branches. &#8220;It should not have been so,&#8221; she repeated softly, &#8220;for I was born to unite the Derai and lead them to the final victory against our enemy. That was the destiny written in the stars in the hour of my birth\u2014but the Swarm, too, can read the stars. It brought the Worm against us to thwart prophecy, so that I had no choice but to slay it or see the destruction of the Derai and all worlds.&#8221; She paused. &#8220;Yet I was promised, even as I lay dying, that another would come to unite the Derai, and that one would not have to stand alone\u2014would not be alone. I was promised, too, that I might wait for the One-to-Come, for she would need my aid. So wait I have, and watched, all these long years.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;For me?&#8221; Malian asked faintly. &#8220;You can&#8217;t possibly mean me.&#8221; &#8216;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ <em>from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em><\/em>The Heir Of Night<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 11 \u2014 The Gate of Dreams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of Christmas my true Muse sent to me&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 One Chosen Hero! &#8216;She lifted her face to the moon, caught in the net of tree branches. &#8220;It should not have been so,&#8221; she repeated softly, &#8220;for I was born to unite the Derai and lead them to the final victory against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-epicfantasy","category-funstuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27597"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27619,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27597\/revisions\/27619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}