{"id":22502,"date":"2013-10-28T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T07:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/28\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-63\/"},"modified":"2013-10-28T07:30:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T07:30:31","slug":"it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-63","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-63\/","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 href=\"http:\/\/sirmordred-thedruid.tumblr.com\/post\/65319256937\/it-takes-a-while-to-track-him-down-camelot-is-not-a\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">sirmordred-thedruid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/65318938933\/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>&#8220;How many times must I remind you? You \/cannot\/ lie to me, I will always know.&#8221; She fists her hands against her hips. Eyes flashing, she announces, &#8220;We\u2019re not leaving this room until you tell me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>H<\/strong>e cocked a brow, chewing the inside of his cheek as he watched her. \u201cYou\u2019re sorely mistaken if you believe that there is only\u00a0<em>one<\/em> way out of this room, Summer.\u201d Almost instantaneously he had decided that the best way to tell her was to not tell her, to make her hate him so that she would leave and they wouldn\u2019t harm her. For her to hate him would tear him apart, but he would rather have her hate him than give her up willingly and watch her die, or keep her in danger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Fine. Then I will find a room that has only one door, and lock us in it, until you tell me what is worrying you.&#8221; She stalks across the floor, hands still on hips, to fetch up on the other side of the bench he&#8217;s standing at. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like it when you hide things from me, things that make you upset.&#8221; Whatever it is, he feels very strongly about it, and she wonders if maybe she would do better to try to take his mind off it, instead of prying it out of him.<\/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-63\/\" 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":[10,2679,2390,2399,2025,2678],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502"}],"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=22502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}