{"id":8182,"date":"2021-05-03T02:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/?post_type=portfolio_page&p=8182"},"modified":"2021-05-03T02:26:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T02:26:26","slug":"the-forgotten-ix","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_page","link":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/portfolio_page\/the-forgotten-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten IX"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWho is she?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cNo one knows her name. I\u2019m not sure she knows.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Laughter.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey say it\u2019s too dangerous to speak her name even if we knew it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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“She\u2019s supposedly got some serious backing. If they knew she was here, they would destroy the Realm to get her back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re full of shit, Go\u2019Sogoth. Pour the ale.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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They think I don\u2019t hear them. I do. And it’s true about Go’Sogoth; I’ve seen him eat it.<\/p>\n

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I hear everything in this \u2026 wherever I am. I don\u2019t know how long I\u2019ve been here. I don\u2019t know what I look like. The guards say I\u2019m beautiful \u2013 compared to them, maybe I am. I don\u2019t know why I\u2019m being held; they don\u2019t speak to me at all. I guess they\u2019re not allowed.<\/p>\n

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And I don\u2019t know my name. If what the guards say is true \u2026 I hope I remember. I\u2019d love to call in some help and get out of here. Wherever \u201chere\u201d is.<\/p>\n

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Stone. Steel bars. That\u2019s all I know. That, and loneliness.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m allowed one robe to wear. It\u2019s red. Matches what little light there is in here. I never take it off unless the guards are asleep.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve looked at my body when the guards aren\u2019t near my cell. Maybe it\u2019s pleasing? I don\u2019t know for sure.<\/p>\n

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I do know I\u2019m covered in tattoos from, well, from as far up as I can see to the tops of my feet. All kinds. I wish I knew what they meant.<\/p>\n

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The ones on the backs of my hands are the most detailed. The one on my left has a circle with a star inside. The other has a cross shape. Both of them feel so familiar, and I think they mean something. I wish I could remember getting them.<\/p>\n

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Who am I? And why do I sense the guards are afraid of me?<\/p>\n

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I should put this journal away before the guards come back. I found it under a loose stone in the floor. It has a \u201cZ\u201d on the cover, crudely drawn, like a child would, maybe?<\/p>\n

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Who did they have here before me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWho is she?\u201d   \u201cNo one knows her name. I\u2019m not sure she knows.\u201d   Laughter.   \u201cThey say it\u2019s too dangerous to speak her name even if we knew it.\u201d   \u201cWhy?\u201d   “She\u2019s supposedly got some serious backing. If they knew she was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","portfolio_category":[39],"portfolio_tag":[146,147,145,130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_page\/8182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_page"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio_page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leighgrissom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}