{"id":551,"date":"2015-01-27T02:04:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/01\/27\/pxraclox-iamthefirechild-echo-and-bear\/"},"modified":"2015-01-27T02:04:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T02:04:21","slug":"pxraclox-iamthefirechild-echo-and-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/01\/27\/pxraclox-iamthefirechild-echo-and-bear\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/pxraclox.tumblr.com\/post\/109255337954\/iamthefirechild-echo-and-bear-thought-it-was\">pxraclox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>@iamthefirechild<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/79264af98573703c25766aade189d866\/tumblr_inline_nitb7ueQ291t7olmt.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small>Echo and Bear thought it was time for Ace to \u2018get back out there\u2019 after months of \u2018moping around his apartment\u2019. He\u2019d like to add, that:<\/small><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><small>He was never \u2018in there,\u2019 at least, not exclusively.<\/small><\/li>\n<li><small>He doesn\u2019t mope. Not for anyone, or anything, and\u00a0<em>especially\u00a0<\/em>not over what he\u2019s learned to regard as a prolonged one-night stand.<br \/><\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><small>So, here he is, lingering by the snack table, clad in a silver masquerade mask with a black suit to match. Their gazes meet once, twice, three times over a punchbowl, and he\u2019s not nearly as annoyed as he should be. <\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>&#8220;S\u2019impolite to stare, y\u2019know.&#8221;<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/39e5d44e3db993ab71abc1e7e374e781\/tumblr_inline_nitbv8nxcQ1rs8qze.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s not even sure how she got invited to this party, except being plus-one to someone who doesn&#8217;t date has unexpected benefits sometimes. It&#8217;s nice enough, though she doesn&#8217;t know anyone except the friend she came with, and her loose hair keeps catching on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.venicemaskedball.co.uk\/ekmps\/shops\/maskedball\/images\/venetian-style-black-metal-filigree-butterfly-mask-3653-p.jpg\">butterfly filigree mask<\/a> she&#8217;s wearing. She&#8217;d decided to wear her favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/78\/d8\/1e\/78d81ed10e76070252b773479a207b0a.jpg\">green corset<\/a> with a black handkerchief skirt and tell anyone who asked that she was Madame Butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>So far no one had asked.<\/p>\n<p>Her gaze keeps catching on the tall, elegant lad, hovering like herself near the snacks, until he finally speaks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought staring was the point of wearing masks? Anyway you&#8217;re worth staring at,&#8221; she replies boldly. There is something liberating, after all, about being unidentifiable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pxraclox: @iamthefirechild Echo and Bear thought it was time for Ace to \u2018get back out there\u2019 after months of \u2018moping around his apartment\u2019. He\u2019d like to add, that: He was never \u2018in there,\u2019 at least, not exclusively. He doesn\u2019t mope. Not for anyone, or anything, and\u00a0especially\u00a0not over what he\u2019s learned to regard as a prolonged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2015\/01\/27\/pxraclox-iamthefirechild-echo-and-bear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/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":[10,59,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}