{"id":24442,"date":"2013-09-26T04:38:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/26\/connections-6\/"},"modified":"2013-09-26T04:38:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T04:38:45","slug":"connections-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/26\/connections-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greensilvr.tumblr.com\/post\/62306538293\/i-am-the-firechild-connections\">greensilvr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62306010844\/connections\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/greensilvr.tumblr.com\/post\/62303816567\/i-am-the-firechild-connections\">greensilvr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/62302542330\/connections\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Catching his remark, Summer spluttered and snorted. &#8220;You were in a glass box, you said. That doesn&#8217;t sound like king of much. Are you counting on some kind of restoration, here? I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to go over well. And, uh, I&#8217;m not going to back you on that one.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He sighed, glaring up at the sky. At least she wasn&#8217;t one to mindlessly flatter. Still. &#8220;There&#8217;s no need to be rude, darling,&#8221; he said rather sharply. &#8220;But worry not, I&#8217;ve long since abandoned such ambitions. Asgard is a petty prize to me now.&#8221; It was as if he could hear how foolish he must sound to her, and yet he still couldn&#8217;t stop saying such things. He shoved a branch out of his way a bit too roughly. It would be a long day, that much was certain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, don&#8217;t be like that,&#8221; she sighed. Finding a bigger tree, she stopped by it and rolled the backpack off her shoulders. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been assuming we have an actual destination &#8212; do we? Or are we just wandering and hoping to find a cave?&#8221; She rubbed at a shoulder where the strap had bitten into the muscle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our destination is some semblance of a life for me,&#8221; he said bitterly, and dragged himself to the tree, leaning heavily against it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, what am I doing out here?&#8221; He rubbed both hands over his face until it hurt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Running away, I thought.&#8221; Summer brushed her hand against Loki&#8217;s arm. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry. Is this not a good plan? You don&#8217;t want to be locked up, and I can&#8217;t blame you, and honestly I don&#8217;t know any better way to get you anywhere else. I only know a little bit of Asgard, and Earth. Midgard. I can&#8217;t get you off this world, Loki! I can&#8217;t &#8212; I&#8217;m just an empath, I&#8217;m not really going to be a lot of good to you, but I won&#8217;t leave you if you don&#8217;t want me to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She ran down after a minute, trying to figure out what else to say. &#8220;You said you&#8217;d try. I&#8217;m just trying to help.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greensilvr: iamthefirechild: greensilvr: iamthefirechild: Catching his remark, Summer spluttered and snorted. &#8220;You were in a glass box, you said. That doesn&#8217;t sound like king of much. Are you counting on some kind of restoration, here? I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to go over well. And, uh, I&#8217;m not going to back you on that one.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/26\/connections-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Connections<\/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":[10,2220,2891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24442"}],"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=24442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}