{"id":10063,"date":"2024-04-22T08:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10063"},"modified":"2024-04-21T15:31:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T19:31:11","slug":"your-new-uniform-is-in-the-wardrobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/your-new-uniform-is-in-the-wardrobe\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Your New Uniform is in the Wardrobe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>brought into the kicking chamber<\/li>\n<li>howling, drooling<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe\u2019ve had our fun.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>not a cold day by Lapland standards<\/li>\n<li>what a beautiful dance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 895 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Your new uniform is in the wardrobe,&#8221; Fleur said. &#8220;Dress quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I groaned. &#8220;I&#8217;m too hungover to do anything quickly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then I shall have you <em>brought into the kicking chamber<\/em> where all the <em>howling, drooling<\/em>, tantrumming babies are kept.&#8221; Fleur gave an evil chuckle. &#8220;That should clear your hangover right up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With another groan I heaved myself to my feet. <em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had our fun.&#8221;<\/em> I stood still until my head stopped spinning. &#8220;No need to bring the children into it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I showered quickly, shaved, and scraped the eggnog fuzz off my teeth. &#8220;What&#8217;s the weather like in Colloquillia today?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s <em>not a cold day by Lapland standards<\/em>, or if it&#8217;s as hot as the Sahara, you&#8217;re wearing the same uniform in any case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Contrarian military uniforms are uniformly outlandish. The higher the rank, the more ridiculous the accessories. Judging by what awaited me in the wardrobe, I&#8217;d been promoted again.<\/p>\n<p>I started with the underwear, complete with all the bells and whistles. As I shimmied and tugged everything into place, Fleur said, &#8220;<em>What a beautiful dance<\/em>. If I didn&#8217;t know better I&#8217;d think you were trying to seduce me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If it meant not having to put on the rest of this outrageous getup, it might be worth it, monster hangover and all.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>brought into the kicking chamber howling, drooling \u201cWe\u2019ve had our fun.\u201d not a cold day by Lapland standards what a beautiful dance Tune in next time part 895 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Your new uniform is in the wardrobe,&#8221; Fleur said. &#8220;Dress quickly.&#8221; I groaned. &#8220;I&#8217;m too hungover to do anything quickly.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,341,403,551,486],"class_list":["post-10063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-clothes","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-wife","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10066,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10063\/revisions\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}