{"id":6780,"date":"2019-09-18T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6780"},"modified":"2019-09-15T18:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T22:58:35","slug":"i-didnt-need-the-spyglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-didnt-need-the-spyglass\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Need the Spyglass"},"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\" \/>twitch in her palm<\/li>\n<li>you\u2019re holding a pair of scissors<\/li>\n<li>trickles from its point<\/li>\n<li>with a horse trainer\u2019s eyes<\/li>\n<li>something tells me that I shall soon know<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 424 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t need the spyglass to see that we were still over open water. I extended it anyway, to look for ships or islets or anything else of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The woman who&#8217;d awakened me came to my side at the window. I saw by her garb that she was in the Mountain Garrison Messaging Corps, commonly known as the Yodelers. I thought she was about to finally tell me her name, but she launched instead into a description of a dream that she was reminded of by the <em>twitch in her palm<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the type of dream where <em>you&#8217;re holding a pair of scissors<\/em> and everyone who sees you points and screams, then runs away. And when you look down at the scissors you see that a blue liquid runs down one blade and <em>trickles from its point<\/em>. And you hold a jar in your other hand, <em>with a horse trainer&#8217;s eyes<\/em> in it, bobbing about in blue liquid among a hodge-podge of combs and more scissors. It was not that exact dream, of course, just one of that general type. General. Do you know what such dreams mean?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; I said, &#8220;but <em>something tells me that I shall soon know<\/em>.&#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>twitch in her palm you\u2019re holding a pair of scissors trickles from its point with a horse trainer\u2019s eyes something tells me that I shall soon know Tune in next time part 424 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I didn&#8217;t need the spyglass to see that we were still over open water. I [&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":[91,403],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","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=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6787,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}