{"id":6943,"date":"2019-12-18T08:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6943"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:46:08","slug":"i-assumed-yoyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-assumed-yoyo\/","title":{"rendered":"I Assumed YoYo"},"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\" \/>\u201cthe butterlike secretion\u201d<\/li>\n<li>growing use of the current slang<\/li>\n<li>applied his forefinger to his forehead<\/li>\n<li>seems a bit hypocritical<\/li>\n<li>their nefarious schemes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 450 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I assumed YoYo was just being spitefully dramatic, but she was serious about her disbelief in twins. I could only shake my head as she worked herself up into a rant about the myth of multiple births, spread by the ruling class to further<em> their nefarious schemes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It <em>seems a bit hypocritical<\/em> of you to jump into bed with someone like me, if you&#8217;re so opposed to what the fat-cats are up to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But don&#8217;t you see? I&#8217;m trying to liberate you from their clutches! Free you from your sham marriage. As for the whole &#8216;twins&#8217; thing, that all dates back to a legend that says William Penn II <em>applied his forefinger to his forehead<\/em> while his concubine applied her forefinger to his foreskin. The wordplay is quite droll in the original, but sadly it doesn&#8217;t translate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My Olde High Contrarian was pretty good, actually, and I had read the legend of which she spoke. Hers sounded like a heretical interpretation to me. &#8220;Are you part of a faction?&#8221; I asked her. &#8220;Trying to convince high-ranking military officers to defect?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She nodded, then shook her head, then shrugged. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s part of a faction, when you come right down to it. I mean, there must be a faction that would have me, right?&#8221; She rambled some more about her ideology and I struggled to make sense of it. Her speech was rife with contradictions and peppered with unfamiliar figures of speech. At least she didn&#8217;t seem to join in the <em>growing use of the current slang<\/em> term <em>&#8220;the butterlike secretion&#8221;<\/em> to refer to any disagreeable political view.<\/p>\n<p>I had to find out if there was anyone at Enigma Fortress I could trust. Including YoYo.<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in reverse 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>\u201cthe butterlike secretion\u201d growing use of the current slang applied his forefinger to his forehead seems a bit hypocritical their nefarious schemes Tune in next time part 450 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I assumed YoYo was just being spitefully dramatic, but she was serious about her disbelief in twins. 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