{"id":9321,"date":"2023-04-17T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2023-04-17T21:06:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T01:06:53","slug":"with-my-right-fist-i-drew-a-figure-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/with-my-right-fist-i-drew-a-figure-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"With My Right Fist I Drew a Figure in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/j-avatar-e1443983489508.png\" alt=\"by jen\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>described as peanut shaped<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOne of your lovers?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>spider venom coursing through his veins<\/li>\n<li>five kinds of tranquilizers<\/li>\n<li>those polarizing candy cane striped couches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 791 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With my right fist I drew a figure in the air, one that my sensei once <em>described as peanut shaped<\/em>. It was designed to distract and mesmerize an attacker. I hoped it would work when there was more than one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who taught you that?&#8221; the taller man asked. <em>&#8220;One of your lovers?&#8221;<\/em> The way he said it I could tell he was hoping to upset Tessa by implying she was not my only paramour. She ignored his taunt and pulled out a blowgun, and moments later both the tall man and his little buddy were on the floor, not moving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not dead, are they?&#8221; I asked. I wasn&#8217;t sure how Fleur would feel about that sort of thing on her airship.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa smirked. &#8220;Not unless either one of them is allergic to the <em>spider venom coursing through his veins<\/em> now. Or any of the other <em>five kinds of tranquilizers<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;d dosed them both with mime juice. I shuddered. You can take the girl out of the invisible box&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wonder who sent them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know how we can find out. Help me drag them over to <em>those polarizing candy cane striped couches<\/em> flanking the altar, and when they wake up&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tessa finished my thought. &#8220;We&#8217;ll polarize them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>bonus points for using them in order<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Stichomancy Writing Prompts\" href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompts\/\">about stichomancy writing prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/stichomancy-writing-prompt-generator\/\">try our stichomancy writing prompt generator!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>described as peanut shaped \u201cOne of your lovers?\u201d spider venom coursing through his veins five kinds of tranquilizers those polarizing candy cane striped couches Tune in next time part 791 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments With my right fist I drew a figure in the air, one that my sensei once described as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,4],"tags":[310,91,403,486],"class_list":["post-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-blowgun","tag-bonus-points","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-zeppelin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9324,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}