{"id":6023,"date":"2014-08-12T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/12\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-358\/"},"modified":"2014-08-12T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:52:35","slug":"the-tale-of-sir-isaac-358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/12\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-358\/","title":{"rendered":"the Tale of Sir Isaac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lycanthropelahey.tumblr.com\/post\/94557396237\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\">lycanthropelahey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/94556982969\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not used to sitting with my hands empty, that\u2019s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Voices came from just outside the room, chief among them Rafael\u2019s. \u201cHighness, please \u2026 \u201c\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s fine, Rafael. I don\u2019t mind.&#8221; The other voice became slightly sterner. &#8220;You\u2019re dismissed, Rafael.&#8221; The door opened, and a pretty, dark-haired girl stood framed in it, elegantly dressed. A fine silver coronet bound her temples. &#8220;Isaac!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe so, but now you can relax &#8212; you won\u2019t have to work for a living here, not unless you want to, of course. Derek provides me with free accommodation and luxuries because of my being like their family, and I am positive that he will extend that same courtesy to you,&#8221; Isaac stated firmly and settled back in his chair with the intention to relax.<\/p>\n<p>But, before he could relax, Cora shattered the comfortable silence and he sighed internally. \u201cCora &#8212; we\u2019ve just finished breakfast, and I wasn\u2019t quite ready yet. And I\u2019d also appreciate you not giving my staff orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Dearest Isaac,&#8221; the princess murmured. She came over beside him and put her arms around his shoulders. &#8220;You forget I hired Rafael for you, and I outrank you both. I can give any orders I like.&#8221; She pressed her cheek to his and straightened up. &#8220;Is this your refugee?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Summer hastily scrambled up from her chair when the princess noticed her and curtseyed, head bent. &#8220;Your Highness,&#8221; she mumbled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lycanthropelahey: iamthefirechild: &#8220;I\u2019m not used to sitting with my hands empty, that\u2019s all.&#8221; Voices came from just outside the room, chief among them Rafael\u2019s. \u201cHighness, please \u2026 \u201c\u00a0 &#8220;It\u2019s fine, Rafael. I don\u2019t mind.&#8221; The other voice became slightly sterner. &#8220;You\u2019re dismissed, Rafael.&#8221; The door opened, and a pretty, dark-haired girl stood framed in it, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/08\/12\/the-tale-of-sir-isaac-358\/\" 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\/6023"}],"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=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}