{"id":35351,"date":"2012-08-02T04:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/02\/loki-and-the-firechild-20\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T04:42:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:42:16","slug":"loki-and-the-firechild-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/08\/02\/loki-and-the-firechild-20\/","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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\u201cOh, sure,\u201d she said wryly. \u201cButter me up. I hope you remember saying that when the convulsions take me in the middle of things.\u201d Summer looked out at the stars all around. \u201cAre you okay to do this? Go back into that? I can\u2019t hold him off and hold you together at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n

But even as she was double-checking, she was also calling her battle armour, knowing she couldn\u2019t live with herself if she let him go out there alone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI do not need anyone to hold me together,\u201d he snapped, a bit too roughly. \u00a0\u201dI only know that\u2026I cannot hope to win this battle alone, and\u2026\u201d he wasn\u2019t entirely sure he wanted to admit this, so the words spilled out quickly, before he could think better of it. \u201cThere is no one else willing to help me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a strange thing, how alone one could feel when you spoke the words out loud.<\/p>\n

\u201cSummer, my plan is this: you will pull his emotions from him, confuse him. \u00a0I will take his powers. \u00a0Only then can I hope to cast more powerful magic than he could conjure. \u00a0And I know just the thing to finish him with. \u00a0Will you fight with me?\u201d<\/p>\n

He held out the device, already humming softly, charging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Summer snugged one of the buckles on her chestplate a little tighter. \u201cI\u2019m probably the only person in the world who would trust you right now.\u201d She shook her head a little, already-loosened hair rippling. \u201cI must be insane. Yes, I\u2019ll fight with you, Loki. You\u2019ll owe me a favour, after.\u201d Assuming we don\u2019t get killed<\/em>, she thought, a little grimly.<\/p>\n

Laying a hand on the device he was holding out to her, she nodded. \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTrusting me may be unwise, but I suppose we shall see,\u201d he said through a crooked smile. \u00a0They clutched the device and Loki spun it just so, locking onto the energy of Thanos.<\/p>\n

In an instant of blinding light, they were landing rather roughly upon a desolate planet of deep black rock, the sky a haze of gray and far away stars. \u00a0There was no movement in sight.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“‘Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it’,” Summer quoted, softly. “I sure hope you know what you’re doing, liesmith.” Closing her eyes, she spread one hand out in the air, reaching.<\/p>\n

There.<\/p>\n

“There’s someone here, alright.” Thought and fear drew her wings to blazing life, casting brilliance over the barren rock. “Do we go to them, or they to us?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lokilaufeyyson: i-am-the-firechild: lokilaufeyyson: i-am-the-firechild: \u201cOh, sure,\u201d she said wryly. \u201cButter me up. I hope you remember saying that when the convulsions take me in the middle of things.\u201d Summer looked out at the stars all around. \u201cAre you okay to do this? Go back into that? I can\u2019t hold him off and hold you together … 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\/35351"}],"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=35351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}