{"id":7970,"date":"2014-07-05T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/05\/everyone-has-secrets-21\/"},"modified":"2014-07-05T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T17:55:35","slug":"everyone-has-secrets-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/07\/05\/everyone-has-secrets-21\/","title":{"rendered":"everyone has secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

lycanthropelahey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“I can.” It seemed important to stress that she didn\u2019t, all the time. “Mostly I don\u2019t. It\u2019s \u2026 like being in a crowded room. I can hear all the conversations going on around me, and I can choose to pay attention to one speaker, or to tune it all out, or put in earplugs \u2014 but I can\u2019t choose not to hear anything at all. And most people, if I touch them, I\u2019m going to hear it whether I want to or not.” She wasn\u2019t looking at him, fiercely focused on finding the right words. “You\u2019re taking this really well.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“That makes sense \u2026 and it\u2019s kind of cool, actually. I knew you were too special to just be ordinary, Summer,” he murmured slowly and tilted his head to the side, before lifting up his shoulders in a helpless little shrug. “After finding out werewolves are real and being turned myself, nothing really surprises me anymore. Why shouldn\u2019t empaths be real? And I guess it all makes sense — supernatural beings being attracted to other supernatural beings and all that.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That made her laugh. “You heard what J-jesse said, though,” she pointed out, stumbling on his name. “You aren’t afraid of that?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

lycanthropelahey: iamthefirechild: “I can.” It seemed important to stress that she didn\u2019t, all the time. “Mostly I don\u2019t. It\u2019s \u2026 like being in a crowded room. I can hear all the conversations going on around me, and I can choose to pay attention to one speaker, or to tune it all out, or put in … Continue reading everyone has secrets<\/span> →<\/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":[10,9,766,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970"}],"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=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}