{"id":18813,"date":"2013-12-16T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/16\/ageless-wanderer-iamthefirechild-she\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T22:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T22:24:41","slug":"ageless-wanderer-iamthefirechild-she","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/16\/ageless-wanderer-iamthefirechild-she\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-18813 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/16\/ageless-wanderer-iamthefirechild-she\/attachment\/18814\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mxrgvsHo501ss585no1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ageless-wanderer.tumblr.com\/post\/70021483834\/iamthefirechild-she-couldnt-hold-his-gaze\">ageless-wanderer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/69917121620\/ageless-wanderer-iamthefirechild\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>She couldn\u2019t hold his gaze. After only a few moments she had to back down, had to turn her eyes away. There was too much there; she didn\u2019t know what it was, but it was overwhelming. Instead she fixed her eyes on her hands, clasped in her lap and starting to shake slightly. Fear? Excitement? Anticipation? She didn\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is your will?&#8221; she said at last.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Satisfied he relaxed imperceptibly. \u201cMy will indeed,\u201d he agreed. Her fear was a delicious scent in the air between them. The sound of her heart pounding out a frantic pace sweeter than any music he could compose. \u201cYou will tell me why you came here tonight. A virtual stranger heard of my invitation and accepts. I would know why.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is what I need.&#8221; She lifts her hand to the collar again, but this time just to run her finger along it, curling her hand around the chain. &#8220;To give up control. Not to have to choose, to decide. Not to be in charge. In the hands of someone who knows nothing of me, won&#8217;t be gentle or cautious or anything because of knowing about me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She drops her hand again, clasping it with the other. &#8220;I need to not think. And this is the best way I know.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ageless-wanderer: iamthefirechild: She couldn\u2019t hold his gaze. After only a few moments she had to back down, had to turn her eyes away. There was too much there; she didn\u2019t know what it was, but it was overwhelming. Instead she fixed her eyes on her hands, clasped in her lap and starting to shake slightly. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/12\/16\/ageless-wanderer-iamthefirechild-she\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,2043,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813"}],"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=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18815,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions\/18815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}