{"id":10132,"date":"2024-05-29T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10132"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T20:31:08","slug":"i-hissed-at-fleur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-hissed-at-fleur\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hissed at Fleur"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>one perilous bonding situation after another<\/li>\n<li>singing it into a Playskool karaoke machine<\/li>\n<li>A palindrome?<\/li>\n<li>Yum.<\/li>\n<li>arcane hieroglyphs which can be read only by<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 906 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I hissed at Fleur, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you brief me about this?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because I know how much you love surprises,&#8221; she replied in an infuraitingly breezy tone. &#8220;And our marriage thrives as a series of <em>one perilous bonding situation after another<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You call this bonding? You think watching me tap-dance my way through a potential international conflagration is a way to strengthen our marriage?&#8221; I whisper-shouted that question right into her face, but I might as well have been <em>singing it into a Playskool karaoke machine<\/em> with dead batteries. This whole scenario was playing out exactly as she wanted it to.<\/p>\n<p>The head Contrarian pharma rep was waving her phone at us from the velvet couch and making a strange pouty face. I rolled my eyes and snatched the phone to see what she wanted to show us. The nanobot control app was flashing a red icon, and the pharma man with the microscopic implants in his body was slumped motionless on the couch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is he okay?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>Pharma lady bit her nail. &#8220;He needs something, oh what did they call it&#8230; <em>A palindrome?<\/em> No, that&#8217;s not right. Oh well. It&#8217;ll come to me. Oh, they brought us more cheese. <em>Yum.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wondered what it would mean for Fleur&#8217;s scheme if the man died. I wondered if the ambassador had noticed yet what was going on. I wondered how many of the slumped man&#8217;s basic biological processes were still working. Even a Contrarian pharmaceutical representative didn&#8217;t deserve to just rot on a couch at a diplomatic function, so I tried to troubleshoot his nanobots via the app. I quickly discovered that all the screens were filled with <em>arcane hieroglyphs which can be read only by<\/em> seventh-order digital mystics, or seventh-graders.<\/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>one perilous bonding situation after another singing it into a Playskool karaoke machine A palindrome? Yum. arcane hieroglyphs which can be read only by Tune in next time part 906 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I hissed at Fleur, &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t you brief me about this?&#8221; &#8220;Because I know how much you love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[91,403],"class_list":["post-10132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10137,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10132\/revisions\/10137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}