{"id":31644,"date":"2012-12-08T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T07:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/08\/iamvictor-roth-iamthefirechild-43\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T07:15:09","slug":"iamvictor-roth-iamthefirechild-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/08\/iamvictor-roth-iamthefirechild-43\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI guess I was lucky, that it didn\u2019t all come at once. The convulsions didn\u2019t start until after I went through puberty, and that was really late. So I already knew how to shield, and keep my emotions separate from others.\u201d Watching the dancing flame, she turned her hand up to catch Victor\u2019s. \u201cPlus, I end up \u2026 bonding, I call it, with people I\u2019m close to. I think I mentioned that. And those emotions \u2026 my body seems to consider that energy normal. So my family can\u2019t actually trigger me that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich is probably why things went weird when I went to college, because I was all alone, and most of the people I was reading weren\u2019t familiar at all. By the end of the year, that first year, I was \u2026 it was pretty bad. And then something happened, I don\u2019t even remember it clearly \u2026 and I could turn the emotions into fire.\u201d Summer put the finger of her free hand out toward the candle, and the flame moved through the air to light on it. \u201cIt\u2019s part of me. I can\u2019t be burned by it. I can choose if it burns anything else. I can shape it, and direct it, whatever I like.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo of course I imitated the Human Torch and taught myself how to fly with it. The wings are just for show.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYeah, I remember you talking about that and I don\u2019t exactly understand what it does or mean really. From what I gathered, you can feel my emotions but does it entail anything besides that?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victor nodded then shuddered as he remembered how he had coped before he accepted that he had been born and bred to be a killer.\u00a0\u201dYeah, college can be hell sometimes.\u201d He watched her reach out towards the flame, fascinated. \u201cThat\u2019s incredible,\u201d he smirked then, \u201cof course, imitating the Human Torch, what else would you do?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She grinned at him, sending the flame back to the candle. \u201cWhat \u2014 oh, the bonding. It\u2019s, um. It\u2019s hard to explain.\u201d Summer chewed on her lip for a minute, trying to think of the right words. \u201cI guess the closest analogue would be the mind melds, from Star Trek. When I bond to someone, it\u2019s mostly involuntary on my part, though, and they usually don\u2019t know anything about it. But what it means is that even under heavy shields, unless I\u2019m drugged, I can still sense that person. No matter what. Distance doesn\u2019t matter. Their feelings are a whisper in the back of my mind.\u201d She paused again, flicking her gaze up to Victor. \u201cI\u2019m bonded to the girls I met in college. One of them lives in Hawai\u2019i. I can still feel her.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWow, she\u2019s in Hawaii? That\u2019s incredible that you can still feel her emotions. I suppose it might also be difficult.\u201d He shook his head in bewilderment, \u201cTrying to sort of all of those emotions and your own must be an interesting process.\u201d He stopped then and thought a moment. \u201cSo you said that we bonded, correct? I\u2019ll do my best not to be too much of a pain then with the bloodlust.\u201d He smiled, half joking, half not. \u201cDo you keep in touch with your friends from college?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I said we could.” She smirked at him, laughing. “If we keep doing what we were doing last night, then definitely. But it’s a lot easier to handle bonded emotions than almost any other. They aren’t obtrusive, and they don’t affect me physically.” Summer’s eyes went distant for a moment. “It’s the people I’m not bonded to that are the problem, that way. Someone else’s pain, someone else’s desire, someone else’s desperate hope. You asked, why have I been alone so much? That’s why.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iamvictor-roth: iamthefirechild: iamvictor-roth: \u201cI guess I was lucky, that it didn\u2019t all come at once. The convulsions didn\u2019t start until after I went through puberty, and that was really late. So I already knew how to shield, and keep my emotions separate from others.\u201d Watching the dancing flame, she turned her hand up to catch … 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":[10,1052,3789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644"}],"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=31644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}