{"id":4907,"date":"2017-06-28T08:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2017-06-27T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T02:27:19","slug":"a-faint-tingling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/a-faint-tingling\/","title":{"rendered":"A Faint Tingling"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>(slate-colored is a better term in frosty weather)<\/li>\n<li>standing there shivering and looking shell-shocked<\/li>\n<li>the splendor of his funeral clothes<\/li>\n<li>tuna croissant<\/li>\n<li>commencing a thorough search of the palace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 192\u00a0<\/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>A faint tingling told me my paralysis was wearing off by the time Dr Absinthia Belladonna finished aiming her dozens of razor-tipped projectiles. She aimed them at every part of me, including all my favorite parts. Then she lit the fuse and retreated behind a steel blast shield. I still couldn&#8217;t move.<\/p>\n<p>The fuse hissed, emitting sparks and rank, sulfurous fumes. I tried to get up, or roll off the table, but although the tingle was stronger than ever my muscles were still powerless.<\/p>\n<p>It felt like a flashback to my years at the academy. And then, it <strong>was<\/strong> a flashback.<\/p>\n<p>Snowflakes settled onto my skin, staked out on the frozen rugby field. Dr Belladonna was teaching a lesson, teaching me not to talk back. Her grayish <em>(slate-colored is a better term in frosty weather)<\/em> eyes barely registered my presence as she dismissed the rest of the students and I was alone, naked in the snow. It took Tessa an hour to sneak out and release me, but as I was <em>standing there shivering and looking shell-shocked<\/em> she gave me her coat. We were two normal teenagers, for about nine seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, the headmaster turned up dead. Dr Belladonna took over running the academy, and her first official act was to give her predecessor&#8217;s eulogy. It was five minutes of observational humor based around <em>the splendor of his funeral clothes<\/em>, while she nibbled a <em>tuna croissant<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Her second official act was to announce that the phys ed department was c<em>ommencing a thorough search of the palace<\/em>, which was our semi-ironic nickname for the wastewater treatment plant next door. It had never been brought online, making it an irresistibly attractive nuisance to us cadets.<\/p>\n<p>We never learned what they had been searching for.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/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>(slate-colored is a better term in frosty weather) standing there shivering and looking shell-shocked the splendor of his funeral clothes tuna croissant commencing a thorough search of the palace Tune in next time part 192\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments A faint tingling [&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":[91,483,403],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-rockets","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","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=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}