{"id":21481,"date":"2013-11-07T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/07\/wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she-69\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T07:09:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:09:33","slug":"wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/07\/wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she-69\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wake up,&#8221; Summer murmurs in Mordred&#8217;s ear. She kisses his cheek. &#8220;I&#8217;ve brought you breakfast, fy nhariad.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sirmordred-thedruid.tumblr.com\/post\/66261793497\/wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she-kisses\">sirmordred-thedruid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/66261413151\/wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she-kisses\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/xregicide-deactivated20140812.tumblr.com\/post\/66025896965\/wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she\">xregicide-deactivated20140812<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>M<\/strong>ordred grunts, his eyes fluttering open after a few seconds and he smiles. \u201cGood morning\u201d he mutters, moving into a sitting position \u201cyou didn\u2019t have to.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Summer swallows a squeak. The king\u2019s blue eyes are daunting, and she really wants to take Mordred\u2019s hand again. \u201cI \u2014 I was hoping I could beg an escort of you, sire, back to my home. I\u2019m \u2014 I\u2019m needed there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>A<\/strong>rthur intertwines his fingers together in front of him, placing his quill down on the desk. \u201cHer lord father is ill, sire,\u201d Mordred tells him, \u201cand her sister is exhausting herself looking after him, he might not make it,\u201d he adds, throwing her a look. \u201cShe received word today and she didn\u2019t want to bring it to your attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She manages to control her face at Mordred&#8217;s blatant lie, biting at her lips and giving the king her most appealing, helpless-girl look. &#8220;I-if Sir Mordred could escort me &#8212; it&#8217;s just Dover &#8230; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Arthur&#8217;s eyes flick back and forth between the two, clearly pondering. &#8220;Just the one?&#8221; He lifts a hand, dismissing any insult on Mordred&#8217;s part. &#8220;Mordred is a fine knight, don&#8217;t get me wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She looks to Mordred for help, and back to the king. &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t think &#8212; I&#8217;m not very important, I don&#8217;t need more than the one &#8230; &#8221; Inspiration strikes. &#8220;Surely if there&#8217;s just the two of us, it will be safer, we will attract less attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sirmordred-thedruid: iamthefirechild: xregicide-deactivated20140812: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mordred grunts, his eyes fluttering open after a few seconds and he smiles. \u201cGood morning\u201d he mutters, moving into a sitting position \u201cyou didn\u2019t have to.\u201d \u00a0 Summer swallows a squeak. The king\u2019s blue eyes are daunting, and she really wants to take Mordred\u2019s hand again. \u201cI \u2014 I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/07\/wake-up-summer-murmurs-in-mordreds-ear-she-69\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Wake up,&#8221; Summer murmurs in Mordred&#8217;s ear. She kisses his cheek. &#8220;I&#8217;ve brought you breakfast, fy nhariad.&#8221;<\/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":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,2351,2379,2025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481"}],"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=21481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}