{"id":5511,"date":"2018-03-12T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:54:15","slug":"i-came-to-with-a-wicked-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-came-to-with-a-wicked-headache\/","title":{"rendered":"I Came To with a Wicked Headache"},"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\" \/>make sure to never do it with a singer<\/li>\n<li>son of a diplomat<\/li>\n<li>I want to have grown-up love<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDinner is ready!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>the air of a disconcerted pickpocket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 265 \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 came to with a wicked headache. My surroundings were so unexpected that for a long while I wasn&#8217;t sure I was actually awake. I could still hear the whooshing chug of the submarine&#8217;s engine, but it was nearly masked by calliope music. I was up to my neck in balloon animals.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever engage in spycraft, <em>make sure to never do it with a singer<\/em>, or dancer, or any other sort of entertainer. But especially don&#8217;t do it with a mime. They&#8217;re ruthless and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla sat cross-legged atop the balloon animal quagmire I was trapped in, made nearly weightless by her near-mystical mastery of mime technique. Her face was covered with a thick layer of white grease paint, with her eyes outlined in black and a red heart drawn around her lips. Her stripey mime leotard was merely body paint, with a skull and crossbones over each nipple and a treasure chest full of doubloons between her legs. A tricorn hat sat atop her head at a jaunty angle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see you&#8217;re finally awake, you landlubber,&#8221; she said. Appearances aside, she was apparently more pirate than mime. &#8220;Yarr! You&#8217;ll be answering my questions now, you scurvy<em> son of a diplomat<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My father had been called many things, but &#8220;diplomat&#8221; was not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time, Tesla,&#8221; I said. She unfolded her legs and moved closer to me, and I became aware that I was naked underneath all the balloon animals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m supposed to interrogate you,&#8221; she whispered, leaning in close. &#8220;But that&#8217;s so tedious, don&#8217;t you think?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She reached down through the layers of inflated, colorful creatures until she found my own inflated, colorful creature. &#8220;<em>I want to have grown-up love<\/em>,&#8221; she cooed. &#8220;And Tessa told me years ago that you&#8217;re very good at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The balloons squealed against each other.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly a hatch in the ceiling banged open and William Sausage looked down through the opening. <em>&#8220;Dinner is ready!&#8221;<\/em> he bellowed in his reedy voice. And then he just stared at us, openmouthed, with <em>the air of a disconcerted pickpocket<\/em>.<\/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>make sure to never do it with a singer son of a diplomat I want to have grown-up love \u201cDinner is ready!\u201d the air of a disconcerted pickpocket Tune in next time part 265 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I came to with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[383,91,112,110,403],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-balloon","tag-bonus-points","tag-mime","tag-pirate","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","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=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}