{"id":35678,"date":"2012-07-26T00:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T00:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/26\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-19\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T00:50:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T00:50:06","slug":"drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2012\/07\/26\/drinkin-with-the-god-of-mischief-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinkin’ with the God of Mischief"},"content":{"rendered":"

the-loki-laufeyson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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

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the-loki-laufeyson<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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

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You did ask. Don\u2019t ask if you don\u2019t want the answer. :looks at him, hard-eyed: I\u2019m your opposite in some ways, god of lies, born of ice. I\u2019m the daughter of the fire, and I always speak truth.<\/p>\n

Emotions don\u2019t scare me. I\u2019ve seen them all, I\u2019ve tasted them all. It only hurts when I try to deny them.<\/p>\n

:looks away, drinks again, speaking softly: Is that what this is about, then? You have a \u2026 sentiment you need carried?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

:scoffs: I have no sentiment. \u00a0I am heavy with too many thoughts and not enough to do with them, I suppose. \u00a0Heavy with memory\u2026expectation\u2026I know not what.<\/p>\n

Aren\u2019t you supposed to tell me? :smiles weakly, takes another drink: You must have exquisite sentiment of your own then?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, aye, I can tell you your \u2026 sentiments. But not always why, or what you would do with them. :swirls the wine in the glass: And yes, I feel, strongly. Overwhelmingly, sometimes. I can understand a desire to stop thinking.<\/p>\n

But I would not be without it. :takes a clip out of her hair and starts to play with the river of it as it comes down over her shoulders: Just like my hair, it\u2019s so much a part of my self-identity that to lose it would be to lose myself.<\/p>\n

They tried, once. I had rather burn, suffer, for a thousand years than not feel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThey?\u201d Loki tilted his head to the side, curious. \u00a0He took another long drink. \u00a0\u201dWho would try such a thing?\u201d \u00a0He tried to steady himself from distraction as she dragged her fingers through her hair. \u00a0Her words echoed softly in his mind\u2026he couldn\u2019t imagine embracing such lifestyle. \u00a0He hated his own emotions, hated the way they fueled him, made him weak, hasty. \u00a0It was a rare luxury to even consider the feelings of others.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She shrugged, avoiding looking at him. “People, people around me. To feel so strongly … it’s not ordinary. It frightens people. There are drugs — I felt like I was walking in a world of cotton. Muffled.” With a shudder, she tossed the rest of the wine back and held the glass out to him. “You think you’re finding my weaknesses, don’t you?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

the-loki-laufeyson: i-am-the-firechild: the-loki-laufeyson: i-am-the-firechild: You did ask. Don\u2019t ask if you don\u2019t want the answer. :looks at him, hard-eyed: I\u2019m your opposite in some ways, god of lies, born of ice. I\u2019m the daughter of the fire, and I always speak truth. Emotions don\u2019t scare me. I\u2019ve seen them all, I\u2019ve tasted them all. It … Continue reading Drinkin’ with the God of Mischief<\/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":[10,4024,4496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35678"}],"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=35678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}