{"id":22289,"date":"2013-10-31T05:22:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T05:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/31\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-50\/"},"modified":"2013-10-31T05:22:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T05:22:41","slug":"it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/31\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-50\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes a while to track him down; Camelot is not a small place, even just the castle. Finally Summer finds him in the armory, putting away his weapons after practise. &#8220;Mordred.&#8221; There&#8217;s only one door, so she stands in it, trying to look a little intimidating. It&#8217;s hard to be angry at him, though; her voice comes out more worried. &#8220;Mordred. What are you hiding from me?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sirmordred-thedruid.tumblr.com\/post\/65591229317\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-a\">sirmordred-thedruid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/65503174609\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-a\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/xregicide-deactivated20140812.tumblr.com\/post\/65318692399\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not\">xregicide-deactivated20140812<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><strong>M<\/strong><span>ordred stopped, placing his vambrace down on the bench, his heart sinking. For a moment he concentrates completely on his armour, how could he answer such a question? Telling her would mean her life and the lives of those whom called Camelot home. An\u00a0<\/span><em>impossible<\/em><span> predicament. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/8847e7017420fecab47a39ec45193475\/tumblr_inline_mvda22Nrpw1s0dfqc.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>T<\/strong>he young knight turns to face her, his fingers brushing lightly against the metal of his armour. \u201cI\u2019m not hiding anything\u201d he tells her simply.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>She struggles to her feet, hands held wide, eyes still fixed on Ragnor. Fire dances in the palms of each hand, irises brilliant gold. She shows no awareness of Mordred at all, in fact. One step toward Ragnor, and another, and she breathes, \u201cYou burn.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he druid shoots upright, lunging forward, grabbing her wrist. \u201cSummer, stop it,\u201d he tells her, his tone firm as he gets in front of her. \u201cSummer, listen to me, please. He isn\u2019t worth it, it\u2019s not worth a life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer turns wide, blank eyes on Mordred. &#8220;They burn. You &#8230; do not. Why do you not burn?&#8221; The flame in her hands flickers, then dies, along with the color of her eyes. &#8220;Mordred?&#8221; Her tone is almost childish, bewildered. She looks around, and tenses when she sees the heap of ashes, the bandit leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What did I do?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sirmordred-thedruid: iamthefirechild: xregicide-deactivated20140812: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Mordred stopped, placing his vambrace down on the bench, his heart sinking. For a moment he concentrates completely on his armour, how could he answer such a question? Telling her would mean her life and the lives of those whom called Camelot home. An\u00a0impossible predicament. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0The young &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/31\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-50\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It takes a while to track him down; Camelot is not a small place, even just the castle. Finally Summer finds him in the armory, putting away his weapons after practise. &#8220;Mordred.&#8221; There&#8217;s only one door, so she stands in it, trying to look a little intimidating. It&#8217;s hard to be angry at him, though; her voice comes out more worried. &#8220;Mordred. What are you hiding from me?&#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":[10,2390,2399,2025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289"}],"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=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}