{"id":5466,"date":"2018-02-26T08:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5466"},"modified":"2018-02-25T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T23:21:33","slug":"i-ducked-behind-an-extensive-knot-of-piping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-ducked-behind-an-extensive-knot-of-piping\/","title":{"rendered":"I Ducked Behind an Extensive Knot of Piping"},"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\" \/>She was fair-skinned and red-headed<\/li>\n<li>a fragment of quartz<\/li>\n<li>A French man and his cat<\/li>\n<li>All was wedded bliss until<\/li>\n<li>he is a miracle child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 261 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I ducked behind an extensive knot of piping in the submarine&#8217;s murky passageway and peered back into the control room as Jason followed his female companion in. <em>She was fair-skinned and red-headed<\/em>, with eyes as sharp as <em>a fragment of quartz<\/em>, and I recognized her immediately as Tessa&#8217;s sister Tesla. The two had often banded together against Tallulah and the others, back at the Academy. All that changed after graduation, though. <em>A French man and his cat<\/em> seduced Tesla and bundled her off to Nantes to be their bride. <em>All was wedded bliss until<\/em> she caught both Yves and Lionel in bed with the man who operated the steampunk elephant at Les Machines de L&#8217;ile. Her heart broken, Tesla went into seclusion. As far as I knew, her whereabouts were a complete unknown, and yet here she was with my twin, and this reedy-voiced individual.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stop talking about him as if <em>he is a miracle child<\/em>,&#8221; Reedy Voice said. &#8220;You&#8217;re all so fascinated with him, but is he really all that different from Jason?&#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>She was fair-skinned and red-headed a fragment of quartz A French man and his cat All was wedded bliss until he is a miracle child Tune in next time part 261 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I ducked behind an extensive knot of [&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":[335,91,311,71,387,403],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-animal","tag-bonus-points","tag-cat","tag-spouse","tag-submarine","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","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=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}