{"id":17527,"date":"2013-12-31T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/31\/nestinghawk-iamthefirechild-she-makes-a\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T06:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:12:11","slug":"nestinghawk-iamthefirechild-she-makes-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/31\/nestinghawk-iamthefirechild-she-makes-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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She makes a sound that is supposed to mean assent, and leans her head back against the headrest, trying to keep her hands away from her mouth. It\u2019s hard, because the lack of feeling feels so strange. Of course, the painkiller they gave her before she left might also have something to do with that \u2014 it\u2019s hard to tell. She feels drifty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Clint uses some of the side roads to avoid the worst traffic jam. It\u2019s a bit longer trip but you\u2019re still home faster than you\u2019d be if you had taken your chances with the shorter way and the jam.<\/p>\n

As Clint parks his car, he says, \u201cOkay you\u2019re home now. Do you want me to to come and keep you some company?\u201d The hawk\u2019s a bit worried and wants to see that you\u2019ll be okay. He gets out of the car and walks to the other side of the car with the intention of opening the door for you..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She waits, still drifty, until he opens the door. It barely occurs to her to open it herself, as strange as she feels right now. There’s a \/hole\/ in her mouth, full of cotton gauze, and she can’t feel half her jaw, and honestly she kind of feels like if she stands up she’s just going to fall back down.<\/p>\n

Summer grabs Clint’s hand when he opens the door, leaning her head against it briefly, then summons up a smile for him. When they get upstairs, she’ll be able to communicate better — a tablet, a pad, something. In the meantime, she holds on to his hand and puts the other arm around his waist, just in case the dizziness is real and not her imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

nestinghawk: iamthefirechild: She makes a sound that is supposed to mean assent, and leans her head back against the headrest, trying to keep her hands away from her mouth. It\u2019s hard, because the lack of feeling feels so strange. Of course, the painkiller they gave her before she left might also have something to do … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17527"}],"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=17527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}