{"id":203,"date":"2012-07-18T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=203"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T01:56:26","slug":"despite-the-mornings-embarrassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/despite-the-mornings-embarrassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite the Morning&#8217;s Embarrassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-24\" title=\"k-avatar\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar.png\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>despite the morning&#8217;s embarrassment<\/li>\n<li>a confusion of alternating nightmare and oblivion<\/li>\n<li>uphill would be difficult<\/li>\n<li>smell the woodsmoke<\/li>\n<li>they will find Mona<\/li>\n<li>around in a long widdershins loop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Despite the morning&#8217;s embarrassment<\/em> at discovering Mona gone, I couldn&#8217;t lose focus. I had to find her before her true enemies; winning her trust could come later.<\/p>\n<p>I had awakened from<em> a confusion of alternating nightmare and oblivion<\/em>, which must have been Mona&#8217;s doing. Poison? Magic? I would ask when I caught her.<\/p>\n<p>So I set out. I will find her trail first, walking <em>around in a long widdershins loop<\/em>, listening for hounds. They will <em>smell the woodsmoke<\/em>. <em>They will find Mona<\/em> unless I protect her.<\/p>\n<p>Tracks, to the east. Toward the heights, her old home. Did she really go that way? <em>Uphill would be difficult<\/em> for her, slow her down. These tracks must be a decoy.<\/p>\n<p>But, maybe not. East I go, hunting a prey I must save from another.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>despite the morning&#8217;s embarrassment a confusion of alternating nightmare and oblivion uphill would be difficult smell the woodsmoke they will find Mona around in a long widdershins loop Despite the morning&#8217;s embarrassment at discovering Mona gone, I couldn&#8217;t lose focus. I had to find her before her true enemies; winning her trust could come later. [&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":[111,348],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-dog","tag-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","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=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}