{"id":5289,"date":"2014-08-29T19:47:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/29\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-282\/"},"modified":"2014-08-29T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:47:07","slug":"the-tale-of-sir-isaac-282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/29\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-282\/","title":{"rendered":"the Tale of Sir Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lycanthropelahey.tumblr.com\/post\/96106531252\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\">lycanthropelahey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/96106034024\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The prince let him have the helm, hazel eyes raking Isaac\u2019s face. \u201cSo live. It\u2019s not like you haven\u2019t fought big guys before; you fight me all the time.\u201d He put his hands back on Isaac\u2019s shoulders and shook him again. \u201cHale knight. My men don\u2019t lose.\u201d Then he turned Isaac around and pushed him toward the field.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve fought big men my whole life, Derek, and survived. If I picture this opponent with my father\u2019s face, you might end up restraining me,&#8221; he added on then with a ghost of a smile, before he staggered off into the field, quickly righting himself as he wielded his sword out in front of him. &#8220;Let\u2019s do this,&#8221; he breathed out to himself, expression darkening as he faced the man before him, drowning out the murmurs of the crowd surrounding him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer leaned forward, clutching Cora&#8217;s hand so tightly her knuckles were white. Cora didn&#8217;t seem to mind. She could hear her own heartbeat pounding, drowning out the voice of the herald, stating the terms and nature of the challenge. The prince lifted a hand to signal, and she caught the set, furious expression of Lord Argent, in the box overhanging the field a quarter of the way around the circle.<\/p>\n<p>And then the two knights are facing each other, and saluting, and the clash of swords drowned out the sound of her heart. Isaac was faster than Sir Ennis, ducking and weaving, and he used a one-and-a-half-hand sword. Sir Ennis had a double-handed broadsword, which could do proportionally more damage &#8212; but only if he could actually hit Isaac with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lycanthropelahey: iamthefirechild: The prince let him have the helm, hazel eyes raking Isaac\u2019s face. \u201cSo live. It\u2019s not like you haven\u2019t fought big guys before; you fight me all the time.\u201d He put his hands back on Isaac\u2019s shoulders and shook him again. \u201cHale knight. My men don\u2019t lose.\u201d Then he turned Isaac around and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/29\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-282\/\" 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\/5289"}],"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=5289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}