{"id":7346,"date":"2020-07-22T08:48:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T12:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7346"},"modified":"2020-07-21T21:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T01:12:22","slug":"so-i-asked-casually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/so-i-asked-casually\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So,&#8221; I Asked Casually"},"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\" \/>present your cocoon<\/li>\n<li>the syllable is the paragraph of the word<\/li>\n<li>would have been described as stocky<\/li>\n<li>and BOOM! You got yourself a fire.<\/li>\n<li>chewed my lips nervously<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 512 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So,&#8221; I asked casually, &#8220;what&#8217;s in all this for me?&#8221; I meant besides not being eaten by a grizzly bear, and I assumed Brady understood that. The nurse was done with my complicated vest and had started unbuttoning the shirt underneath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You owe me,&#8221; Brady growled. &#8220;After how rude you were two years, ten months, and fifteen days ago. You completely blew me off. You didn&#8217;t even bother to <em>present your cocoon<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I waited, but he didn&#8217;t finish the code phrase. I tried the countersign anyway. &#8220;You forget that <em>the syllable is the paragraph of the word<\/em>.&#8221; Brady looked confused, but also still smug. It renewed my desire to be away from here.<\/p>\n<p>My chance to skedaddle before the meeting evaporated, as Kabbadan Scrim marched out into the courtyard. Like Brady &#8212; and soon myself if the pretty nurse had anything to say about it &#8212; he was shirtless. But unlike Brady, Scrim was hairy and uninked, and <em>would have been described as stocky<\/em> by someone who was trying not to offend him. Another nurse had escorted him this far, and was clearly glad to be done with such duty, but Scrim wasn&#8217;t done talking. &#8220;So you aim a lightning bolt at the hospital <em>and BOOM! You got yourself a fire.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Brady welcomed his unpleasant visitor, the nurse undoing my buttons leaned close and whispered in my ear. &#8220;Play along.&#8221; And then she kissed me full on the mouth. She obviously didn&#8217;t have much experience with the activity, but was going all-in. Brady cleared his throat behind her as the nurse <em>chewed my lips nervously<\/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>present your cocoon the syllable is the paragraph of the word would have been described as stocky and BOOM! You got yourself a fire. chewed my lips nervously Tune in next time part 512 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments &#8220;So,&#8221; I asked casually, &#8220;what&#8217;s in all this for me?&#8221; I meant besides not [&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-7346","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\/7346","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=7346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7351,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7346\/revisions\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}