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Embry Call
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Life is made up of moments, live them, don't let them pass through a lens, don't let what comes next distract you. And Music, don't forget the music. #Parody
< whispered. “We’ve got this.”
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< But I couldn’t think about what this meant… right now she was here… she’d doubtless felt the pain her brother was in too… and yet she was here. She came to me… Nothing else matters right now. Only Leah.

She had all of me right now and for as long as she needed me. “Let go, Trouble,” I >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< around us. But if I were going to get her out of her wet clothes, I would need her to let go. Because I wouldn’t take anything else from her… not after everything that had been ripped away from her.

My head was spinning, my wolf was aching and joyous and wild in my chest. But I couldn’t think >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< the jacket, my eyes settling on hers, the deep, bottomless brown that I had gotten lost in more times than I could count. “You can let go, Leah… I’m right here.” I wasn’t going to tell her everything was okay, not tonight… not here… not now… not with the world we’d created still in pieces all >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
<
I set her on her feet, and I stood in front of her. Only now noticing the parcel in her hand was her coat… I assumed there was something wrapped up inside it hastily. I did a double take… Leah and haste weren’t two things that normally go together.

I placed my hand on the top and bottom of >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< If she wanted to talk till the sun came up… it wouldn’t be the first time… but maybe… just maybe she’d want to squeeze into the tiny single bed I had said a thousand times I’d replace and never did. Just like that night on her couch. But I wouldn’t push her beyond what she was comfortable with.
>
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< behind us, so I didn’t disturb Mom… I could hear her breathing peacefully down the hall. I didn’t second-guess the decision once… If she needed me to sit on the floor next to her all night so she could sleep, it was exactly what I would do; I wouldn’t take my eyes off of her for a single second. >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< shoulder and her knees… letting her protect whatever it was she had carefully shielded from the storm.

She is tall, so I passed through the doorway sideways to avoid smacking her ankles on the frame of the front door and the same for my bedroom… I pushed the door closed gently with my foot >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< Tired… she said she was tired… and fuck… I knew exactly how she felt. “I know… I know.” I buried my face into the crook of her neck, where her hair was plastered to her skin. The next words were a sob. “Me too… So tired.” In one swift, easy motion. I scooped her up and carried her, under her >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< sob and a disbelieving laugh passed my lips.

She was real. She was… Leah. My Leah.

Before my hand could finish flattening against her cheek, I pulled her in, careful of the bundle she was cradling like precious cargo. “Trouble,” I whispered as I pulled her and wrapped my arms around her… >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< the rain from my lips… and slowly, tentatively, I reached out to place my hand on her cheek. Fuck… was my hand shaking… it would pass through her… I told myself, even though I could feel the heat of her body radiating next to me.

My fingers brushed her soaked cheek. And sound like a sigh, a >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< front of her in less than a second. Her scent mixed with earth and rain… her boots and trousers were splattered with mud… her knees were caked like she had been kneeling in it. I tugged the earbuds roughly from my ears, my gaze locked on hers as I stepped into the rain. I lifted my hand, licking >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< Played in my ears, and she was still there. “Leah…” Her name caught in my throat and I leapt the three paces from the chair to the steps in one sudden movement, afraid that a second's delay would reveal all of this as just another illusion, a dream that vanished with the sunrise. I was in >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< My breath came faster… filled with her scent as I waited for her to vanish…

“𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥
𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦
𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥
𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘺
𝘛𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦
𝘐 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺”
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< the porch steps were soaked to the skin… steam rising from her, only to be smothered by the pouring rain. Grandmother was always unaffected by the elements, and her face was… “Leah…” It was Leah… holding a different bundle than my earlier vision. My heart stopped… then raced and stopped again. >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< stop, to tell her I couldn’t… I wouldn’t break my promise to her any more than I had done every day since our lives exploded.

The voice… I whipped my head up, some very choice, sordid words for my goddess gathering in my throat.
She was tired!!!
She….
But when I looked, the apparition at >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< was on the air, and my heart began to race. The taunting of the spirits was too much tonight, and I felt tears drop against my palms, the true feeling of wetness on my skin breaking the illusion I had imagined or been influenced to feel. I was about to lift my head to beg Grandmother Moon to >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< through her all-night vigil while even the skies mourned her losses and her pain. An unmistakable voice played in my ears… a song that wasn’t on the playlist I selected. The unmistakable female voice reminded me of how hard it had been for Leah to trust so much of herself to me. She >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< climate there was much the same… but La Push, it had a spiritual connection to rain and the fog.

Still I felt the phantom damp seeping into my clothes… almost a coldness… I could hardly remember what cold felt like. Were the Spirits pushing me to step into the deluge and go find her? Sit with >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
< felt my clothes grow heavy and cold against my skin… Knowing this, the spirits were trying to get my attention. The rain wasn’t touching me, but I could feel the heaviness it filled the air with. It was a feeling unique to this place… Even in Neah Bay, the rain never felt like this, and the >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Lightning cracked, but I still didn’t lift my head… I'm not sure how much more of Grandmother's vision I could take tonight. She could be standing there again, looking like the woman I wasn't sure I knew how to exist without anymore. Rain pelted, and even though I was sheltered under the porch, I >
September 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM