{"id":5491,"date":"2022-06-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:26:54","slug":"the-adventures-of-maite-and-kepa-part-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2022\/06\/02\/the-adventures-of-maite-and-kepa-part-105\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of Maite and Kepa: Part 105"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kepa sat in a dark room, huddled with several others who had made their way from the control room to this safe room. Olatz, or Marina – Kepa still wasn\u2019t quite sure how he should think about her – was on the other side of the room, conferring with what Kepa assumed were her lieutenants; Argia was among them. He could hear them arguing and see them gesticulating, but he really didn\u2019t care. All he could do was think about Maite, beating himself up for leaving her behind. He wondered where she was.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Adventures of Maite and Kepa is a weekly serial. While it is a work of fiction, it has elements from both my own experiences and stories I’ve heard from various people. The characters, while in some cases inspired by real people, aren’t directly modeled on anyone in particular. I expect there will be inconsistencies and factual errors. I don’t know where it is going, and I’ll probably forget where it’s been. Why am I doing this? To give me an excuse and a deadline for some creative writing and because I thought people might enjoy it. Gozatu!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Olatz stood, turning to the crowd in front of her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe control room is gone,\u201d she said. \u201cWe destroyed everything before we left, so they shouldn\u2019t be able to trace us, but we\u2019re going to have to rebuild before we can restart our operations. You should all disperse back home, according to our protocols, to ensure you aren\u2019t conspicuous and traced back here. Those of us with no home to go to -\u201d was she looking at Kepa? \u201c- we\u2019ll regroup at the baserri in twenty-four hours. It is imperative that you aren\u2019t followed. Better to not show up than to let the enemy find us, again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A murmur rippled through the crowd as they began talking amongst one another. A few stood, embraced, and then disappeared through one of the doorways that exited the room. Over the course of the next few hours, people slowly trickled out until all that were left were Olatz, some of her lieutenants, and Kepa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argia sat down next to Kepa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSentitzen dut,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kepa looked up. \u201cHuh?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry, about Maite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kepa just nodded absentmindedly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve lost a number of friends during the course of this\u2026 revolution,\u201d continued Argia. \u201cIt never gets easier, but eventually you sort of get numb.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kepa\u2019s eyes flashed, a spark of anger coursing through him, but he let it pass before he said anything. \u201cI never want to become numb to losing those important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Olatz – Marina – walked over to them and squatted down in front of Kepa. \u201cWe\u2019ll find her, I promise.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking up at her, Kepa asked \u201cHow do you even know she\u2019s alive?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDe Lancre – Zalazar – wouldn\u2019t kill her, I can promise you that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour promises seem somewhat\u2026 hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marina brushed aside the slight, instead opting to change the topic. \u201cWe need to get to the baserri.\u201d She stood and offered a hand to Kepa. \u201cTime to go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you get this post via email, the return-to address goes no where, so please write blas@buber.net<\/a> if you want to get in touch with me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kepa sat in a dark room, huddled with several others who had made their way from the control room to this safe room. Olatz, or Marina – Kepa still wasn\u2019t quite sure how he should think about her – was on the other side of the room, conferring with what Kepa assumed were her lieutenants; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2640,864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventures-of-maite-and-kepa","category-bubers-basque-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/maite-and-kepa-v2-01.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-1qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5493,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions\/5493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}