{"id":23294,"date":"2013-10-19T19:26:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/19\/sirmordred-thedruid-iamthefirechild-they\/"},"modified":"2013-10-19T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T19:26:35","slug":"sirmordred-thedruid-iamthefirechild-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/19\/sirmordred-thedruid-iamthefirechild-they\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

sirmordred-thedruid<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“They never knew it was magic,” she whispered. “I don\u2019t talk about it much. Mine is so little it\u2019s easy to hide, easy to make it look like I\u2019m not using it, when I always am. I\u2019ve only had to defend myself with it a few times, and nobody looks in the forest for the burned bones of bandits.” She shuddered hard with that memory, of dealing death with her magic while her mind was caught up in theirs. The cup rattled against the table.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m sorry. I didn\u2019t mean you to know this. I didn\u2019t mean you to have to carry this.” It always came to this, to the ache of being different spilling from her lips and driving people away. “I don\u2019t want to be alone any more.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0H<\/strong>e leaned forward, placing his hand on the goblet, ceasing the movement for a moment. \u201cDo not apologize,\u201d he tells her, his voice smooth and calm, \u201cdo not apologize for feeling, or for remembering, or anything. You have nothing to be sorry for. You have every right to defend yourself.\u201d Mordred smiles, taking her hand. \u201cThank you for trusting me enough to tell me that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer blinked hard, and a few tears trickled down her face. “Trusting you is easy. I look inside you, and there’s nothing to fear.” She clung to his hand, laying her face against their joined hands. “I’m sorry.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

sirmordred-thedruid: iamthefirechild: “They never knew it was magic,” she whispered. “I don\u2019t talk about it much. Mine is so little it\u2019s easy to hide, easy to make it look like I\u2019m not using it, when I always am. I\u2019ve only had to defend myself with it a few times, and nobody looks in the forest … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/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":[10,2638,2006,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294"}],"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=23294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}