{"id":12838,"date":"2014-03-28T18:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/03\/28\/%e2%97%8b-21\/"},"modified":"2014-03-28T18:29:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T18:29:33","slug":"%e2%97%8b-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/03\/28\/%e2%97%8b-21\/","title":{"rendered":"\u25cb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/badassbetaerica.tumblr.com\/post\/80961331968\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">badassbetaerica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/80949795466\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/badassbetaerica.tumblr.com\/post\/80948084512\">badassbetaerica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/80901218363\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/badassbetaerica.tumblr.com\/post\/80764625384\">badassbetaerica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<pre><span>Send me a \" \u25cb \" for my character's reaction to finding yours sitting outside in the rain, upset and crying<\/span><\/pre>\n<p><small><span>Erica was wet and cold. The one day she\u2019d decided to walk to school, the weather had freakishly decided to turn in the middle of the day and bucket down with rain. She reached her front yard when she saw her red haired friend sitting on the doorstep in tears. \u201cSummer? Sweetie, what\u2019s wrong?\u201d She ran over to her and embraced her in a hug, pulling the girl\u2019s head into her shoulder to try and comfort her. She hated seeing Summer sad and she would do anything to make whatever was making her cry go away.<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;He was \u2014 I \u2014 there was \u2014 so \/angry\/, Erica, so much anger.&#8221; She couldn\u2019t even find the right words to put around what had happened; it was blurry and warped in her mind. &#8220;It went through me and there was fire. Oh god I\u2019m a monster, I\u2019m a monster.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019re not a monster. You\u2019re talking to a girl who grows hair on her face and tries to murder people on the full moon. If anyone\u2019s a monster around here it\u2019s not you. We should go talk to Deaton, ask him about what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer looked up at Erica, eyes widening in fear. \u201cNo, no, nonono.\u201d She began to tremble. \u201cDon\u2019t make me go there, don\u2019t make me do that. Please, just hide me, just make it go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;What? Why Summer? He can help you, no one is going to judge you, we can figure out what happened and why it happened..&#8221; She didn\u2019t understand why Summer was so reluctant but she pulled her close and hugged her tightly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be hunted,&#8221; she sobbed. The tremors grew worse,  muscles in her legs jumping. Summer clutched her arms around herself, tensing in every limb in a futile effort to stop shaking. &#8220;Make it stop, Erica.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>badassbetaerica: iamthefirechild: badassbetaerica: iamthefirechild: badassbetaerica: Send me a &#8221; \u25cb &#8221; for my character&#8217;s reaction to finding yours sitting outside in the rain, upset and crying Erica was wet and cold. The one day she\u2019d decided to walk to school, the weather had freakishly decided to turn in the middle of the day and bucket &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/03\/28\/%e2%97%8b-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u25cb<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[10,65,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838"}],"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=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}