{"id":3526,"date":"2016-02-01T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skelleyverse.com\/?p=3526"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:52:43","slug":"lyudmila-beckoned-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/lyudmila-beckoned-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyudmila Beckoned To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>girlfriend and your sister<\/li>\n<li>more involved than he was willing to admit<\/li>\n<li>only has one birthday a year<\/li>\n<li>casting frightened glances back over their shoulders<\/li>\n<li>took them to a nearby orange grove<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune In Next Time Part 46<\/strong><b>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lyudmila beckoned to me with her crooked index finger. While my uncle Jinx Damocles continued unpacking the nesting boxes, she and I quietly moved from the sofa and into the shadowy corner of the basement room.<\/p>\n<p>I felt her warm breath on my ear as she whispered, &#8220;I always wanted to be your <em>girlfriend, and your &#8216;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sister<\/span><\/em>&#8216; over there,&#8221;\u00a0she indicated Jason with a roll of her eyes, &#8220;was always in the way. Not to mention Tessa of course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jason is bad news,&#8221; I whispered back. &#8220;Where trouble&#8217;s concerned, he&#8217;s always\u00a0<em>more involved than he was willing to admit<\/em>. We need to watch our backs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I tried to imagine how we looked to Jason from his seat beside Uncle Jinx. Probably like two fools\u00a0<em>casting frightened glances back over their shoulders<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jinx Damocles&#8217;s voice rang through the basement, &#8220;Here is the message we must decode: What do you call a man who <em>only has one birthday a year<\/em>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s easy,&#8221; I said, moving back to rejoin him, hoping Lyudmila\u00a0remembered enough of our pillow talk to catch my hidden meaning. &#8220;That means that Jorgensen has\u00a0the coordinates and the jewels. He\u00a0<em>took them to a nearby orange grove<\/em>, the one the coordinates referenced, and buried them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lyudmila looked at me with wide, wide eyes. There were no orange groves in Rhode Island where we currently were, of course. I nodded almost imperceptibly, directing her to make her move.<\/p>\n<p>She shrugged her shoulders and gave me a look that said, &#8220;if you insist.&#8221; I waited for her to use her contortionist skills to befuddle Jason enough that I could overpower him, but instead she moved closer to Jinx Damocles. Before I could say anything to stop her, she reached down his pants and took hold of the Sword of Damocles.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us froze, stunned.<\/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>girlfriend and your sister more involved than he was willing to admit only has one birthday a year casting frightened glances back over their shoulders took them to a nearby orange grove Tune In Next Time Part 46\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Click Here for Earlier [&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":[403,344],"class_list":["post-3526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-uncle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526","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=3526"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3526\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}