{"id":31328,"date":"2013-01-03T05:23:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/03\/valley-of-the-shadow-iamvictor-roth-27\/"},"modified":"2013-01-03T05:23:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:23:56","slug":"valley-of-the-shadow-iamvictor-roth-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/01\/03\/valley-of-the-shadow-iamvictor-roth-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Valley of the Shadow | @iamvictor-roth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTo Buddy,\u201d Summer echoed, draining her glass. She didn\u2019t even ordinarily drink much, but nothing was as bitter as the taste of her sorrow, of the family\u2019s sorrow that she could already feel leaching into her. The bonds of family were unlike other empathic bonds, but they still carried emotion, and she carried it all. She curled over, around the empty space where her sense of her grandfather had lived, and rocked silently. \u201cI\u2019ll have to go down there tomorrow,\u201d she murmured into her knees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victor realized that the amount of sadness and pain she was experiencing was exponentially more than anyone would ever feel. He put his glass down and pulled her to him so that she was sitting on his lap, kissing her head and neck tenderly. \u201cWhy do you have to go back there love?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer sighed. \u201cI haven\u2019t been home in months, Victor darling. I\u2019ve got to go down for the funeral, though. The funeral, the wake, the viewing, god. The only way I\u2019m going to survive it is drugs.\u201d This sigh was bitter, and she blinked another tear away. \u201cTell me you love me, Victor,\u201d she whispered. \u201cTell me how much you love me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Victor was surprised for a moment but leaned in by her ear, \u201cI love you, Summer. I love you very much and I\u2019ll never stop.\u201d He punctuated each word with a tender kiss to her jaw. \u201cI\u2019d offer to go with you for support but I don\u2019t want to intrude on something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even now, under the weight of it all, his voice still shot a shiver down her spine. “Having you there would be more appreciated than I can express. Please come with me. Come with and keep me sane. And hold me. Just,” her voice cracked again, “hold me.” She felt like she was falling, wished she was falling, flying, anywhere but here. “Make me not think.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: \u201cTo Buddy,\u201d Summer echoed, draining her glass. She didn\u2019t even ordinarily drink much, but nothing was as bitter as the taste of her sorrow, of the family\u2019s sorrow that she could already feel leaching into her. The bonds of family were unlike other empathic bonds, but they still carried emotion, and … Continue reading Valley of the Shadow | @iamvictor-roth<\/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":[10,1052,3228,3670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31328"}],"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=31328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}