{"id":22481,"date":"2013-10-28T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/28\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-61\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:34:12","slug":"it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/28\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-61\/","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\/65361200680\/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\/65349529034\/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>She pulls herself up as tall as she possibly can, face set.\u201dNo. Not until you stop lying to me.\u201d It\u2019s hard to hold on to the anger when what she wants to do is ease the worry away, but she can\u2019t do that if he won\u2019t tell her. \u201cThis can\u2019t work if you lie to me!\u201d Changing tack slightly, she adds, coaxing, \u201cMaybe I can help, whatever it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong> form of a permanent frown etches itself into his forehead, looking over her for a moment. There was no way he was going to tell her and there was no way he was going to hurt her by trying to move her. \u201cSummer,\u201d he hisses, \u201cthis doesn\u2019t concern you,\u201d he tells her, \u201cnow\u00a0<em>move<\/em>.\u201d The look on his face was one he hadn\u2019t worn in a long time, one of danger and warning, one that caused his eyes to darken and shadows to dance across his face. \u201cPlease.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She flinches back, wholly involuntarily, and for the first time fears him a little. &#8220;Please,&#8221; she pleads back, in return. &#8220;Only tell me, don&#8217;t lie to me.&#8221; Tears stand in her eyes. &#8220;Why do you insist on lying to me?&#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\/28\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-61\/\" 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":[10,2672,2390,2399,2025],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481"}],"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=22481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}