{"id":5344,"date":"2014-08-26T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/26\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-289\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T21:42:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T21:42:20","slug":"the-tale-of-sir-isaac-289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/26\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-289\/","title":{"rendered":"the Tale of Sir Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lycanthropelahey.tumblr.com\/post\/95851989772\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\">lycanthropelahey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/95851078374\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gently, she pushed away. \u201cI can\u2019t do that. I need to be there, I need to know.\u201d She looked up at him, eyes dark. \u201cI\u2019ve seen combat, my l\u2014Isaac. I know what can happen.\u201d She pulled his dagger from its sheath and lifted it to her hair, cutting off a curl at the nape of her neck. \u201cI don\u2019t have a ribbon to give you, to wear around your arm, as noble ladies do. All I have is myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t want you to see me hurt\u2026I don\u2019t want you to see the bloodshed\u2026I don\u2019t want you to see me\u00a0<em>hurt\u00a0<\/em>another man. I don\u2019t like it, Summer, but I will do it, for my protection, and yours,\u201d he stated pointedly before stilling, recalling with a pained grimace that she\u2019d already witnessed him removing Sir Kit\u2019s thumb. Watching her then, he reached out to cup her jaw, tracing his fingers along her jawline. \u201cWhich is all I ever want\u2026just promise me that if you have to watch, that if I survive, you\u2019ll be there to hold me afterwards? I don\u2019t care how it looks to the others.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She turned her head to kiss his palm. &#8220;Shhh,&#8221; she murmured. &#8220;You are a fighter, a King&#8217;s knight. I won&#8217;t think less of you for being what you are.&#8221; She put the lock of hair into his hand, curling his fingers around it. &#8220;I know your strength. You will defeat this other knight. I believe in you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lycanthropelahey: iamthefirechild: Gently, she pushed away. \u201cI can\u2019t do that. I need to be there, I need to know.\u201d She looked up at him, eyes dark. \u201cI\u2019ve seen combat, my l\u2014Isaac. I know what can happen.\u201d She pulled his dagger from its sheath and lifted it to her hair, cutting off a curl at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/26\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-289\/\" 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\/5344"}],"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=5344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}