{"id":31646,"date":"2012-12-08T06:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/08\/iamvictor-roth-i-guess-i-was-lucky-that-it\/"},"modified":"2012-12-08T06:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T06:58:22","slug":"iamvictor-roth-i-guess-i-was-lucky-that-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/12\/08\/iamvictor-roth-i-guess-i-was-lucky-that-it\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

iamvictor-roth<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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. “What — oh, the bonding. It’s, um. It’s hard to explain.” Summer chewed on her lip for a minute, trying to think of the right words. “I guess the closest analogue would be the mind melds, from Star Trek. When I bond to someone, it’s mostly involuntary on my part, though, and they usually don’t know anything about it. But what it means is that even under heavy shields, unless I’m drugged, I can still sense that person. No matter what. Distance doesn’t matter. Their feelings are a whisper in the back of my mind.” She paused again, flicking her gaze up to Victor. “I’m bonded to the girls I met in college. One of them lives in Hawai’i. I can still feel her.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 Victor\u2019s. \u201cPlus, … 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\/31646"}],"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=31646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}