{"id":32287,"date":"2012-11-02T02:28:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/02\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king-11\/"},"modified":"2012-11-02T02:28:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T02:28:45","slug":"lady-archer-the-warrior-king-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/02\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Archer | @the-warrior-king"},"content":{"rendered":"<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><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-warrior-king.tumblr.com\/post\/34762817706\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king\">the-warrior-king<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/34713904949\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps you should have thought of that before you treated me with such kindness. Certainly before you kissed me. Why, then? I will know why.\u201d In her anger and frustration, tears spilled down her cheeks. \u201cMy lord, I asked not even a chance, and yet you offered one, and now take it away.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He looked at her and put his hand on her face, concerned and upset at how she was reacting to his words, \u201cThis is why I wished to say nothing, and my mind did tell me to not kiss you\u2026 to not touch you\u2026 and to not wish you within my arms, but\u2026 I could not listen to it, I could not hear upon those words.\u201d<\/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>&#8220;You &#8212; \/you\/ chose. Do you not see, Henry? You say you do not know your own heart, and yet &#8212; do you truly not see? Even before you heard me expose my heart, here, already you encouraged my emotion, and yet deny your own.&#8221; She stopped, looking earnestly up at Henry. &#8220;If 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the-warrior-king: iamthefirechild: the-warrior-king: iamthefirechild: \u201cPerhaps you should have thought of that before you treated me with such kindness. Certainly before you kissed me. Why, then? I will know why.\u201d In her anger and frustration, tears spilled down her cheeks. \u201cMy lord, I asked not even a chance, and yet you offered one, and now take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/11\/02\/lady-archer-the-warrior-king-11\/\" 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\/32287"}],"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=32287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}