{"id":342,"date":"2015-02-11T21:43:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/02\/11\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-9\/"},"modified":"2015-02-11T21:43:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T21:43:39","slug":"the-tale-of-sir-isaac-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/02\/11\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-9\/","title":{"rendered":"the Tale of Sir Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lycanthropelahey.tumblr.com\/post\/110748673412\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">lycanthropelahey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/110748270639\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m the housekeeper, ducky,&#8221; she said comfortably, still smiling broadly. &#8220;Come now, out of the bed, there\u2019s much to do and you\u2019ve kept to yourselves long enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Summer sighed, closing her eyes. \u201cMaire, we were busy,\u201d she said meaningfully.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure, and don\u2019t I know it, and aren\u2019t we all pleased as punch for it, darling, but the sun\u2019s high and the seneschal\u2019s impatient, and so\u2019s the seamstress.&#8221; The housekeeper pulled at the blankets, tugging them away. &#8220;I\u2019ve brought you breakfast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought I was a princess,&#8221; Summer muttered.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Isaac wasn\u2019t entirely used to being naked around any other female other than Summer, and this housekeeper didn\u2019t seem at all bothered by their appearance at all. In fact, he\u2019d even go as far as to say that she was amused, and he didn\u2019t quite know how to react to that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excuse me &#8212; &#8221; he intervened, before faltering and eyeing her skeptically, wondering just how far the gossip of their love-making would travel, and he frowned slightly. Reaching down to cup at himself as she whipped away the blankets, Isaac whirled to face Summer, wordlessly begging her to keep the servants under control, even if he did quite like this fussing, motherly figure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer pleaded, &#8220;Maire, please go away,&#8221; scrabbling to pull at least one bit of fabric over them. &#8220;I promise we&#8217;ll get up. Just please go away?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The housekeeper tsked, but somehow managed to bustle across the few steps to the door. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be back in half a candlemark, darling, see that you do. Don&#8217;t let the handsome lad distract you, now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then she was gone, the door closed behind her, and Summer dropped flat on the bed with a huff. &#8220;Oh my God,&#8221; she said, half-laughing. &#8220;I swear I didn&#8217;t know she would do that, I promise, that wasn&#8217;t supposed to happen, she usually leaves me alone.&#8221; She peeked at Isaac. &#8220;Are you angry with me?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lycanthropelahey: iamthefirechild: &#8220;I\u2019m the housekeeper, ducky,&#8221; she said comfortably, still smiling broadly. &#8220;Come now, out of the bed, there\u2019s much to do and you\u2019ve kept to yourselves long enough.&#8221; Summer sighed, closing her eyes. \u201cMaire, we were busy,\u201d she said meaningfully. &#8220;Sure, and don\u2019t I know it, and aren\u2019t we all pleased as punch for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/02\/11\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the Tale of Sir Isaac<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}