{"id":11537,"date":"2014-04-22T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/thegraveheart-iamthefirechild-somehow-the\/"},"modified":"2014-04-22T03:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T03:45:07","slug":"thegraveheart-iamthefirechild-somehow-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/04\/22\/thegraveheart-iamthefirechild-somehow-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

thegraveheart<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Somehow, the hunter twisted \/under\/ Isaac\u2019s arm, even while the grip on his wrist tightened, and pulled the werewolf\u2019s arm up behind his back. He hissed, \u201cHard to do when you\u2019re holding on to me,\u201d and jerked his wrist free. \u201cI\u2019m coming back for her. Decide whose side you\u2019re on, wolf-boy.\u201d Then he was gone, back down the hallway and out a different set of doors, seeming perfectly casual.<\/p>\n

Summer could sense him leaving, the absence that meant his presence weaving through clusters of the brilliant sparks that were people, normal people, ordinary people. She closed her hands, pulling the fire back into herself. It burned inside her wildly, but she forced every bit of control she had ever learned on it, closing it up, closing herself up, until finally it died, smothered.<\/p>\n

Her legs still felt wobbly as she went back across the field toward Isaac. A werewolf. He was a werewolf, and he had just saved her life. \u201cI think I owe you my freedom,\u201d she said, when she was near enough to look into his golden eyes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Isaac bared his canines at her, but his shift took precedence over his emotions. With a twist of his neck and a pop of his bones, he was human again, fur, brow bone, teeth, claws receding, eyes fading back to their soft blue.<\/p>\n

“The sooner you make use of it, the better.” It wasn\u2019t his intention to sound like an asshole, but\u2014”Next time I won\u2019t be around to save your ass.”<\/p>\n

A pause, and he turned his face away from the scores of students flooding out of the doors and gathering around campus. \u201cWhat exactly are you?\u201d he asked, still maintaining eye contact with some far away tree.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She should be frightened of him. She should be terrified.<\/p>\n

He saved her life.<\/p>\n

“I’m an empath. And … something else. I don’t know what. I don’t — know how I do that. Other thing. I don’t know how I can.” Her knees wobbled a little again, and she was a little worried she might collapse. She hoped not. That would be embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Rather than touch him, she walked around until she could look in his face again. “Hey. Thank you. Again. A lot. Can I know your name?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

thegraveheart: iamthefirechild: Somehow, the hunter twisted \/under\/ Isaac\u2019s arm, even while the grip on his wrist tightened, and pulled the werewolf\u2019s arm up behind his back. He hissed, \u201cHard to do when you\u2019re holding on to me,\u201d and jerked his wrist free. \u201cI\u2019m coming back for her. Decide whose side you\u2019re on, wolf-boy.\u201d Then he … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,1038,490,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}