{"id":6847,"date":"2019-10-23T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2019-10-21T22:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T02:19:54","slug":"pleased-to-make-your-acquaintance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/pleased-to-make-your-acquaintance\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pleased To Make Your Acquaintance&#8221;"},"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\" \/>it\u2019s definitely probably most likely<\/li>\n<li>lives with his reindeer-herder father<\/li>\n<li>So, bullshit and hogwash.<\/li>\n<li>vivid, annihilating heat<\/li>\n<li>foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 434 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pleased to make your acquaintance, Yesterday,&#8221; I said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But you&#8217;re making it today,&#8221; YoYo quipped.<\/p>\n<p>William Penn XII favored her with an indulgent smile. &#8220;I think we should leave my wife and brother-in-law to get to know one another better, don&#8217;t you?&#8221; He stepped forward and offered YoYo his elbow. She linked arms with him and cooed about how dashing his cheek numerals looked as they glided out the door.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever you hear tales about a family that&#8217;s rife with tawdry intrigue, <em>it&#8217;s definitely probably most likely<\/em> mine.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday performed the 720-degree curtsy of the eastern noble houses. Etiquette demanded that I reply with the bow of morning, noon, and night, which I had technically never done. But that bow was essentially indistinguishable from doing the worm, which I had much practice with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;William is my second husband,&#8221; Yesterday said to me while I undulated across the floor. &#8220;My first ran off in disgrace and now <em>lives with his reindeer-herder father<\/em>. That&#8217;s the official story, but there never were any reindeer in the eastern provinces. <em>So, bullshit and hogwash.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you and William happy?&#8221; I asked, rising and kissing her hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, but we are content. When it is time to rut we do so with <em>vivid, annihilating heat<\/em>, and the rest of the time we each have our own hobbies. His latest hobby would appear to involve yodeling.&#8221; She caressed my cheek, gazing at it in fascination. &#8220;What about you and Fleur? I know what William says, but&#8230;&#8221; She kissed my un-calligraphed skin. &#8220;I want to hear what you say.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well,&#8221; I said, &#8220;she sent me off to this remote outpost. That should give you the basic tenor of our marriage.&#8221; Yesterday was smiling up at me. I kissed her gently on the lips, and though she didn&#8217;t kiss back she kept smiling. &#8220;What happens now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She licked her lips again. &#8220;Now, you tell me of how this fortress came to be built. I can&#8217;t believe the workers carried out their job without <em>foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them<\/em> once it was done.&#8221; And then, she kissed me, hard, making sure I could not, in fact, tell her any such thing.<\/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>it\u2019s definitely probably most likely lives with his reindeer-herder father So, bullshit and hogwash. vivid, annihilating heat foreseeing the hideous reality which awaited them Tune in next time part 434 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;Pleased to make your acquaintance, Yesterday,&#8221; I said. &#8220;But you&#8217;re making it today,&#8221; YoYo quipped. 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