{"id":33394,"date":"2012-10-02T07:20:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T07:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/02\/checking-in-4\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T07:20:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T07:20:27","slug":"checking-in-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/10\/02\/checking-in-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking In"},"content":{"rendered":"

tea-with-mutants<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild:<\/a><\/p>\n

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[the asklimit is incredibly hateful]<\/p>\n

Summer shrugged uncomfortably, but met his eyes nonetheless. \u201cI\u2019m a mutant. An empath. I\u2019m not staying here. I\u2019ve a life, in New York, in the city. But I thought you should know.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAn empath.. you\u2019re the first one I\u2019ve met.\u201d He eyes at Summer with a curious smile. \u201cI\u2019m not forcing you to stay dear, you don\u2019t have to be afraid.\u201d He rests his hands on his lap, trying to look as\u00a0nonthreatening\u00a0as possible. \u201cHow\u2019s your life like in the city? How do you manage to hide your abilities, if you don\u2019t mind me asking?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Hiding the mutant ability is easy. It’s amazing how many people simply assume I’m reading body language, facial expressions, tones of voice. Phrasing. I don’t,” she hesitates, “manipulate. Unless I have to. Absolutely have to. Just knowing is enough, most days.”<\/p>\n

She laughs, a little bitterly. “Most days, just knowing is all I can take. It just comes in and in and in, and for a long time there was no out. That’s the part that’s harder to hide.” Summer works her fingers a little, the curious gesture of someone used to working with their hands. “If I don’t find an out, I convulse.” Looking down, she goes on, “Until I discovered this.” And abruptly both hands are covered in flames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

tea-with-mutants: iamthefirechild: [the asklimit is incredibly hateful] Summer shrugged uncomfortably, but met his eyes nonetheless. \u201cI\u2019m a mutant. An empath. I\u2019m not staying here. I\u2019ve a life, in New York, in the city. But I thought you should know.\u201d \u201cAn empath.. you\u2019re the first one I\u2019ve met.\u201d He eyes at Summer with a curious smile. … Continue reading Checking In<\/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":[10,4091,140,1384,4090],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394"}],"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=33394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}