{"id":32271,"date":"2012-11-02T19:53:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/02\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king-10\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T19:53:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:53:36","slug":"lady-archer-the-warrior-king-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/02\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Archer | @the-warrior-king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-warrior-king.tumblr.com\/post\/34826946447\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king\">the-warrior-king<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/34804466569\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-warrior-king.tumblr.com\/post\/34802588009\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king\">the-warrior-king<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/34774520453\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYour every action belies your speech.\u201d Despite her tears, anger emboldened Summer; she clasped his hand with one of her own, and reached up to brush his face with her fingertips. \u201cHenry. Answer me. Why, last night? I thought it a dream. But you tell me \u2018twas reality. \/Why\/?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Henry sighed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2026 in truth I do not know why I kissed you,\u201d he said, \u201cPerhaps it was an impulse I could not fight, to kiss you\u2026 because I wanted to\u2026 since that day when I missed you at the library.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou \u2014 \/you\/ chose. Do you not see, Henry? You say you do not know your own heart, and yet \u2014 do you truly not see? Even before you heard me expose my heart, here, already you encouraged my emotion, and yet deny your own.\u201d She stopped, looking earnestly up at Henry. \u201cIf in the end, in the end, Henry, it is not to be, I would wish to know that we took the chance. That you allowed yourself the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He looked at her and touched her face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not wish to break your heart if it is not meant to be\u2026 I would never wish that upon you but\u2026\u201d he stopped and looked at her again, and he leaned in closer, his lips almost touching hers again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think I would deny you\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Slowly, Summer closed the space between them, pressing her lips to his. Offering. Asking. After a moment, she pulled away, whispering, &#8220;For my own, if my heart be broken, it will ache the less for that I loved thee. Let me choose this, Henry. Mine heart is thine already, wilt not accept it?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the-warrior-king: iamthefirechild: the-warrior-king: iamthefirechild: \u201cYour every action belies your speech.\u201d Despite her tears, anger emboldened Summer; she clasped his hand with one of her own, and reached up to brush his face with her fingertips. \u201cHenry. Answer me. Why, last night? I thought it a dream. But you tell me \u2018twas reality. \/Why\/?\u201d Henry sighed. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/02\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king-10\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lady Archer | @the-warrior-king<\/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":[10,3858,3062,1044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271"}],"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=32271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}