{"id":35659,"date":"2012-07-26T05:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T05:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/26\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-14\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T05:42:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T05:42:10","slug":"drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/26\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinkin&#8217; with the God of Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-loki-laufeyson.tumblr.com\/post\/28037484468\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief\">the-loki-laufeyson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/i-am-the-firechild.tumblr.com\/post\/28036752736\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief\">i-am-the-firechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/the-loki-laufeyson.tumblr.com\/post\/28036432099\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief\">the-loki-laufeyson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/i-am-the-firechild.tumblr.com\/post\/28036240605\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief\">i-am-the-firechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAh.\u201d The syllable was almost inaudible, her eyes wide and unfocused. When Loki fell silent, she blinked, and a few tears rolled down her face. Her fingers flexed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. I\u2019ll carry that. He held your mind, didn\u2019t he.\u201d It wasn\u2019t even a question; her voice was low and harsh, and something sharp edged it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe did,\u201d Loki muttered simply. \u00a0It was strange, opening up his most vulnerable secrets to a near stranger, and yet she felt very familiar to him. \u00a0He felt lighter in her presence already, like she truly had lifted away his troubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am most certain now that the mind is capable of reaching far greater levels of pain than the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her hands curled into fists, and every trace of pleasure or happiness was wiped from her face. \u201cSuch a truth, from the god of lies.\u201d A sharp, short breath, and she relaxed, all over. \u201cWill you \u2026 let me look?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He raised an eyebrow, turning to meet her eye to eye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook?\u201d He felt far too exposed at this point. \u00a0There wasn\u2019t enough wine on Asgard to make Loki Laufeyson feel comfortable exposing his secrets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her eyes were level. &#8220;Such things often leave behind &#8230; marks. Scars, where the hooks were set in. Places in your heart that ache, for reasons you cannot remember; things once you loved but cannot now. I can find them. Ease them.&#8221; A quick smile flickered over her lips. &#8220;Or I can just try to distract you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the-loki-laufeyson: i-am-the-firechild: the-loki-laufeyson: i-am-the-firechild: \u201cAh.\u201d The syllable was almost inaudible, her eyes wide and unfocused. When Loki fell silent, she blinked, and a few tears rolled down her face. Her fingers flexed. \u201cYes. I\u2019ll carry that. He held your mind, didn\u2019t he.\u201d It wasn\u2019t even a question; her voice was low and harsh, and something &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/26\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drinkin&#8217; with the God of Mischief<\/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":[10,4024,4496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659"}],"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=35659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}