{"id":27700,"date":"2013-05-17T20:07:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/17\/askprofessorx-iamthefirechild-she-shrugged\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T20:07:14","slug":"askprofessorx-iamthefirechild-she-shrugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/05\/17\/askprofessorx-iamthefirechild-she-shrugged\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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She shrugged. \u201cThere\u2019s careful, and then there\u2019s hermit. Either way. I figured it was only polite to let the telepath know there\u2019s an empath in his area.\u201d She looked down at her hands and added, \u201cIn case I \/really\/ lose it one day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He chuckled with good nature. The professor was able to tease himself now and again. \u201cCome along, dear. Certainly Weschester isn\u2019t so far off of the radar?\u201d The stranger mentioned her gifts and he nodded, impressed. \u201cAn empath, hm? Remarkable. I\u2019ve only met a handful over the years. Quite the\u00a0extraordinary\u00a0gift you have, love.\u201d He quirked an eyebrow. \u201cLose it?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I’m not able to get out of the city much these days,” she confessed. “It can be — overwhelming. I’m not as in control as I’d like to be, and there’s — ” She hated having to say this. She wanted the professor to like her, but responsibility insisted she warn him properly. She sighed. “My body doesn’t cope with external emotions well. Either the extra energy is routed through my muscles — convulsions — or I have to use it up another way. I divert it into fire.” She held out a hand, and a little tongue of flame appeared, dancing and twisting in her palm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

askprofessorx: iamthefirechild: She shrugged. \u201cThere\u2019s careful, and then there\u2019s hermit. Either way. I figured it was only polite to let the telepath know there\u2019s an empath in his area.\u201d She looked down at her hands and added, \u201cIn case I \/really\/ lose it one day.\u201d He chuckled with good nature. The professor was able to … 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":[10,3213],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700"}],"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=27700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}