{"id":10224,"date":"2024-07-10T09:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=10224"},"modified":"2024-07-09T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T23:14:45","slug":"bjorn-i-presume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/bjorn-i-presume\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bjorn, I Presume?&#8221;"},"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\" \/>it feels a bit&#8230; forced.<\/li>\n<li>the Queen\u2019s public image isn\u2019t exactly one of wild frivolity<\/li>\n<li>smell anything out of the ordinary?<\/li>\n<li>moved there two years ago to join a cult<\/li>\n<li>conducts disturbing hot dog experiments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 918 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bjorn, I presume?&#8221; I asked through clenched teeth. I was still under the nanobot swarm&#8217;s control, but having reached my destination it seemed that their hold on me relaxed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t give you permission to speak,&#8221; was the reply.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet speak I can, even if &#8212; like a lot of things around here &#8212; <em>it feels a bit&#8230; forced.<\/em>&#8221; Whoever was hiding in the shower, he obviously had the phone with the control app that I desperately needed. I stalled for time while I tried to think of ways to get it from him. &#8220;How&#8217;s your sister these days?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s fine. Quite giddy actually, even though <em>the Queen&#8217;s public image isn&#8217;t exactly one of wild frivolity<\/em>. I&#8217;ve just come from one of her secret parties; <em>smell anything out of the ordinary?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ursula was Queen of Colloquillia? That was impossible. I kept up with political news. I knew all about the Queen, how she was an outlander who&#8217;d m<em>oved there two years ago to join a cult<\/em> that <em>conducts disturbing hot dog experiments<\/em>, and wound up running it in a week and then parlayed that into running the whole country. Her name wasn&#8217;t Ursula, it was&#8230; Her name was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Why couldn&#8217;t I remember that name?<\/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>it feels a bit&#8230; forced. the Queen\u2019s public image isn\u2019t exactly one of wild frivolity smell anything out of the ordinary? moved there two years ago to join a cult conducts disturbing hot dog experiments Tune in next time part 918 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Bjorn, I presume?&#8221; I asked through clenched [&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":[91,305,403],"class_list":["post-10224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-robot","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224","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=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10229,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions\/10229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}