{"id":32133,"date":"2012-11-09T01:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/09\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock-6\/"},"modified":"2012-11-09T01:57:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T01:57:09","slug":"shooting-star-wordlesswarlock-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/09\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Star | @wordlesswarlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/35307037117\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/35306080555\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/wordlesswarlock.tumblr.com\/post\/35286143369\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock\">wordlesswarlock<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/35285361539\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Summer\u2019s tone went wry. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like I have any choice in the matter.\u201d One hand rubbed at her forehead. An awkward silence fell. \u201cUm \u2026 do you think I could borrow a book? Something to read, just to pass some time? I don\u2019t want to keep you from anything you need to be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Oh, sure,\u00a0<\/em>smiled Merlin as he went over to one of Gaius\u2019 bookshelves. <em>Most of the books in here are medical books. Is that alright? And don\u2019t worry about distracting me. I was just heading back here, anyway.\u00a0<\/em>He had planned to go to sleep once he\u2019d gotten home, but he couldn\u2019t just go to sleep while there was a patient and Gaius was out. It was irresponsible, not to mention rude.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf \u2026 it\u2019s not too much trouble, could you tell me about you, then? I can\u2019t even think how you manage to survive \/here\/ of all places with,\u201d Summer flourished a hand at him, \u201cso much power. I mean, at least I can talk, I don\u2019t have to resort to telepathy, so I can keep my powers hidden \u2026 \u201d She gave him an unintentionally appealing look. \u201cI never found anyone else with magic.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another blush spread across Merlin\u2019s face and neck. He wasn\u2019t quite used to people mentioning how much power he had.\u00a0<em>Some days it\u2019s difficult, and some days it\u2019s easy, especially because Arthur thinks I\u2019m an idiot. With most people, I don\u2019t use telepathy, though. I write in a journal or mouth what I want to say.\u00a0<\/em>He sighed sympathetically at her expression.\u00a0<em>I\u2019m sorry\u2026 I know how difficult that is.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t you ever get a chance to stop hiding?&#8221; The fact that he blushed so easily over it fascinated her; did no one ever praise him for it either? &#8220;At &#8212; at home, I don&#8217;t &#8230; so much have to hide. I don&#8217;t go about telling people, but I know many of our people have guessed that there is more to my skills at healing than simply &#8230; herbs and potions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It must be horrible for him, she thought. To be here, of all places, in the centre of the Purge, and bound in service to the heir to Camelot, and never be able to be honest about himself with anyone. Always keeping secrets, always lying. She gave an involuntary shiver of sympathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: wordlesswarlock: iamthefirechild: Summer\u2019s tone went wry. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like I have any choice in the matter.\u201d One hand rubbed at her forehead. An awkward silence fell. \u201cUm \u2026 do you think I could borrow a book? Something to read, just to pass some time? I don\u2019t want to keep you from anything &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/09\/shooting-star-wordlesswarlock-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shooting Star | @wordlesswarlock<\/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":[10,3749,197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133"}],"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=32133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}