{"id":35216,"date":"2012-08-05T04:56:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T04:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/05\/loki-and-the-firechild-17\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T04:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T04:56:02","slug":"loki-and-the-firechild-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/05\/loki-and-the-firechild-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Loki and the firechild"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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i-am-the-firechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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

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i-am-the-firechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTwo. Close together. A blur of others, pooling together, very faint. Almost \u2026 stuttering. As if they don\u2019t feel at all, or not much.\u201d Summer could feel the flame, pooling in her veins, waiting to be called into death.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you fly? I\u2019m pretty sure I can\u2019t carry you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He snorted. \u00a0\u201dThat would be convenient, but no. \u00a0We shall travel by foot.\u201d \u00a0We cannot all be Thor.<\/em> \u00a0He imagined her suspicions pointed to Thanos, some sort of bodyguard, and a grouping of his mindless followers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And if his mind still served him, he knew exactly where they would be. \u00a0He had been there before. \u00a0The memory made him shiver. \u00a0\u201dCome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The walk was long, and dull, and boring. Summer occupied herself tilting her head back to stare at the sky, trying to match the stars with anything familiar at all. It was a fruitless exercise, but better than watching the dull, lifeless rock and dirt surrounding them. She supposed it could be worse \u2014 whatever sun this place had could be up, rendering it blazingly hot. Or blindingly bright.<\/p>\n

It was possible, she mused, that there was no sun here. Just the cold, distant stars in the velvet black of space. How achingly lonely that would be. She shivered, and wrapped her arms around herself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Loki was acutely aware that his vision was rather skilled in the dark. \u00a0Perhaps he was simply used to such things; anything develops if it is used enough. \u00a0The thought made him sad, and he didn\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep your senses sharp, fire child,\u201d he said low. \u00a0They were getting close. \u00a0In fact, he could see the dark fortress materialize before them\u2014a twisting series of angular towers, and the faint glow of red-purple light through a low window. \u00a0His fists clenched over his throwing knives instinctively, remembering the last time he was brought to that room.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“I’m going to need brain bleach after this,” Summer murmured back. “It’s like having everything slimy crawl through my head. But nothing’s changed. Still the two, one very strong, very … ” She paused for a long time, searching for a word. ” … very disciplined. And the others, flickering.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lokilaufeyyson: i-am-the-firechild: lokilaufeyyson: i-am-the-firechild: \u201cTwo. Close together. A blur of others, pooling together, very faint. Almost \u2026 stuttering. As if they don\u2019t feel at all, or not much.\u201d Summer could feel the flame, pooling in her veins, waiting to be called into death. \u201cDo you fly? I\u2019m pretty sure I can\u2019t carry you.\u201d He snorted. … Continue reading Loki and the firechild<\/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":[10,4024,4360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216"}],"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=35216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}