{"id":24942,"date":"2013-09-11T17:32:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/11\/theroyalprat-iamthefirechild-summer-rainault\/"},"modified":"2013-09-11T17:32:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T17:32:47","slug":"theroyalprat-iamthefirechild-summer-rainault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/11\/theroyalprat-iamthefirechild-summer-rainault\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theroyalprat.tumblr.com\/post\/60891595343\/iamthefirechild-summer-rainault-shaded-her\">theroyalprat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/\">iamthefirechild:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><sub>Summer Rainault shaded her eyes, glancing up at the sun. She was nearly to Camelot; in fact, she could see the castle\u2019s towers rising in the distance. The heat was oppressive, and she nudged her mare to greater speed, hoping to at least generate a cooling breeze.<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><sub>Absorbed in her thoughts, she didn\u2019t pay much attention to the sounds around her until the several roughly dressed men had surrounded her. \u201cWell hey, what\u2019s this?\u201d one of them growled, brandishing a knife at her. \u201cPretty girl, all alone, not a good thing.\u201d Another one chuckled, a cruel sound.<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><sub>&#8220;All your money, and quickly,&#8221; the one with the knife said, beckoning.<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><sub>Summer twisted her mouth sideways. \u201cDo I look to have money on me, you fool?\u201d<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><sub>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<em>A<\/em>rthur let the blade of his sword rest against the other\u2019s Adam\u2019s apple &#8211; thank Camelot there were only a couple of the offenders, not that many. \u201cYou are about to be arrested for\u00a0<em>stealing,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>he growled in his ear, just as the guards from behind several trees emerged, also holding swords.<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><sub>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u201dYou messed with the wrong kingdom, my friends.\u201d he growled.<\/sub><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/aa93ead003ae323c048afd3bd21f23e6\/tumblr_inline_msxsdrStRF1qz4rgp.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The equally abrupt appearance of rescuers shocked a yelp out of her. Well, she assumed they were rescuers, since several of the armed men wore obvious uniforms. She eased her grip on the reins, gentling her horse to stillness, and looked down at the blond man.<\/p>\n<p>With a swift motion, she planted her boot in the ruffian&#8217;s face. &#8220;I appear to be in your debt, sir.&#8221; It was unclear to whom she was speaking; it could have been the thieves for bringing her to the attention of the guards, or the guards and their leader for rescuing her from the thieves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theroyalprat: iamthefirechild: Summer Rainault shaded her eyes, glancing up at the sun. She was nearly to Camelot; in fact, she could see the castle\u2019s towers rising in the distance. The heat was oppressive, and she nudged her mare to greater speed, hoping to at least generate a cooling breeze. Absorbed in her thoughts, she didn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/09\/11\/theroyalprat-iamthefirechild-summer-rainault\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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":[10,3045,2150,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942"}],"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=24942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}