{"id":7384,"date":"2020-08-12T08:51:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=7384"},"modified":"2020-08-09T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T00:52:18","slug":"marnie-glockenspiel-took-a-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/marnie-glockenspiel-took-a-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Marnie Glockenspiel Took a Paper"},"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\" \/>addressed to her husband<\/li>\n<li>Even your fingernails<\/li>\n<li>Nor am I trying to repay you with money<\/li>\n<li>I do not care to be hypnotized<\/li>\n<li>such a methodical revenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 518 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marnie Glockenspiel took a paper out of a pocket of her nurse uniform. She explained to Heinrich and Svetlana that it was a letter <em>addressed to her husband<\/em>, which had arrived only after he disappeared. She read them a few lines, faltering over the strange syntax, then sobbed that the whole letter made no sense.<\/p>\n<p>It was obviously in code, and in fact it was one I was fluent with. I could help Marnie figure out what her husband had been mixed up in.<\/p>\n<p>But Svetlana kept badgering her about crawling under Heinrich&#8217;s clothes as a way to travel. &#8220;<em>Even your fingernails<\/em> won&#8217;t bother him, he has such a thick hide,&#8221; she assured Marnie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look,&#8221; the erstwhile nurse said, &#8220;I do really appreciate the ride you already gave me. It&#8217;s gotten me this far, which is worth something. But I can&#8217;t become any more deeply indebted to you. <em>Nor am I trying to repay you with money<\/em>, for the simple reason that I have none. My mission is to find my husband, and <em>I do not care to be hypnotized<\/em> by the uncanny motion of your limbs. Besides, it&#8217;s impractical. I can&#8217;t travel as you do, because unlike you I am not a contortionist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re overlooking one thing,&#8221; Heinrich put in. &#8220;Without us, you&#8217;re stuck here. There&#8217;s something in that letter about a bear, right? You think that&#8217;s a coincidence?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Svetlana chortled.<\/p>\n<p>Everything about Marnie&#8217;s situation clicked in my mind. Someone had kidnapped her husband, so that they could send a letter to him that she would read, which would take her to this place, and make her susceptible to the flimsy rationale of two criminals inside a bear suit. But who would trouble themselves to take <em>such a methodical revenge<\/em> on a nurse?<\/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>addressed to her husband Even your fingernails Nor am I trying to repay you with money I do not care to be hypnotized such a methodical revenge Tune in next time part 518 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Marnie Glockenspiel took a paper out of a pocket of her nurse uniform. She explained [&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-7384","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\/7384","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=7384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7392,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7384\/revisions\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}