{"id":8809,"date":"2022-09-14T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2022-09-11T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T21:24:53","slug":"even-though-i-knew-full-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/even-though-i-knew-full-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Though I Knew Full Well"},"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\" \/>chatter about conspiracy theories all day<\/li>\n<li>the size of a tiger\u2019s<\/li>\n<li>People do.<\/li>\n<li>smells weird to me<\/li>\n<li>threw herself into my arms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 730 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even though I knew full well that Fleur wasn&#8217;t one to stand around and <em>chatter about conspiracy theories all day<\/em>, I was surprised by her disinterest in learning more about Mother&#8217;s schemes. After all, she knew full well that Mother had a nefarious side <em>the size of a tiger&#8217;s<\/em> litter box and twice as foul. Perhaps my wife had simply grown weary of combating my mother&#8217;s evil. <em>People do.<\/em> Even I sometimes just tried not to think about it.<\/p>\n<p>With the engines restored, we were in stable flight again and executing a turn to leave enemy airspace. The brood was safe. In my happiness and relief, I leaned down to embrace Fleur. She didn&#8217;t hug me back, and whispered in my ear, &#8220;Go to your quarters and take a shower. Something about you <em>smells weird to me<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I got to my suite, I gave myself a quick sniff and had to agree that my uniform was less than fresh. By the time I had shed the outfit I had to admit that it wasn&#8217;t just the uniform. I opened the bathroom door, and discovered I was not alone. A woman leaped out of the tub and <em>threw herself into my arms<\/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>chatter about conspiracy theories all day the size of a tiger\u2019s People do. smells weird to me threw herself into my arms Tune in next time part 730 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Even though I knew full well that Fleur wasn&#8217;t one to stand around and chatter about conspiracy theories all day, [&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-8809","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\/8809","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=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8814,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions\/8814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}