{"id":4937,"date":"2017-07-12T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2017-07-11T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T01:19:00","slug":"i-heard-no-one-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-heard-no-one-else\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heard No One Else"},"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\" \/>decided to sit down and use my legs to<\/li>\n<li>parched and cracked<\/li>\n<li>silent graveyard barren of trees<\/li>\n<li>and all to no purpose<\/li>\n<li>Your brain forges a link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 196\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>I heard no one else in the rocket surgery, and if the clamorous calamity that finished off Dr Belladonna hadn&#8217;t drawn Jim&#8217;s attention I didn&#8217;t have any theories as to what would. With luck that meant he wouldn&#8217;t turn up.<\/p>\n<p>The paralytic had not fully worn off, even after my nap, so I <em>decided to sit down and use my legs to<\/em> get the pants on in a bicycling motion. The shirt and jacket I donned without using my legs at all. The shoes matched the outfit splendidly, but there was no way I could cram my <em>parched and cracked<\/em> feet into the tiny wingtips. Yoda&#8217;s Crocs were infinitely less stylish and didn&#8217;t coordinate at all, but they were better than going barefoot.<\/p>\n<p>My plan was to find a way back to the surface, and hope not to encounter Jim along the way. I found another door and opened it to reveal a moonlit, <em>silent graveyard barren of trees<\/em>. How could that be? It couldn&#8217;t. What I&#8217;d taken for headstones were paper shredders, dozens of them arranged in rows throughout the large room. The full moon was merely a large, round fluorescent bulb.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Figured it out yet, big brother?&#8221; Jim&#8217;s amplified voice seemed to be coming from the false moon. &#8220;You&#8217;ve gone and killed Absinthia, <em>and all to no purpose<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was an accident, one she brought on herself,&#8221; I muttered. I had no way to know if he could actually hear me.<\/p>\n<p>Another eerie, echoey transmission boomed out in Jim&#8217;s bayou drawl. &#8220;Don&#8217;t imagine you know Jason&#8217;s whereabouts? Save me some time and trouble. Since there&#8217;s no way out of here, I can go ahead and spell out what I have planned, and you won&#8217;t be able to stop me. Twins, such as you and Jason, you know what happens under the perfect conditions? <em>Your brain forges a link<\/em> to his.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yippee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And once that happens,&#8221; Jim said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll have what I need to defeat Mother once and for all.&#8221;<\/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>decided to sit down and use my legs to parched and cracked silent graveyard barren of trees and all to no purpose Your brain forges a link Tune in next time part 196\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I heard no one else [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,24,403],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-brother","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937","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=4937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4945,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4937\/revisions\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}