{"id":9698,"date":"2023-10-25T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T12:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2023-10-24T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T02:32:08","slug":"titania-slouched-against-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/titania-slouched-against-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Titania Slouched Against the Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24\" src=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/k-avatar-e1443983846496.png\" alt=\"by Kent\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>wearing nothing but a helmet and gloves<\/li>\n<li>The nights are long, and Canada is cold<\/li>\n<li>blowing the whistle in furious disapproval<\/li>\n<li>if I have no other option, is it really laughter?<\/li>\n<li>in a strange groping gesture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 846 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Titania slouched against the wall, <em>wearing nothing but a helmet and gloves<\/em> made of the same dark metal. She looked pleased to see me, which was a relief. Not that I felt safe around her, but I thought it best to try to mask my uneasiness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where&#8217;s Nigel?&#8221; I asked flippantly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saskatoon,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;It&#8217;s nice to have him around, when I stay there. <em>The nights are long, and Canada is cold<\/em>.&#8221; She tilted her head contemplatively, and her smile grew wicked. &#8220;Of course, Nigel isn&#8217;t allowed out of Canada anymore, not after what happened on the train. Barreling through the station, <em>blowing the whistle in furious disapproval<\/em> of, I don&#8217;t know, maybe hockey? All things Canadian? Ironic, no?&#8221; She chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>I laughed too, but <em>if I have no other option, is it really laughter?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re still not wearing your pajamas,&#8221; she sing-songed. She waved her gauntleted hand <em>in a strange groping gesture<\/em>, and suddenly the scientist getup I was wearing started to constrict in severely persuasive ways. I moved like a marionette whose operator was trying to put out a fire, compelled to wrestle the fringed pajamas on over my costume while the Crystal Clown cackled at my predicament.<\/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>wearing nothing but a helmet and gloves The nights are long, and Canada is cold blowing the whistle in furious disapproval if I have no other option, is it really laughter? in a strange groping gesture Tune in next time part 846 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments Titania slouched against the wall, wearing [&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-9698","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\/9698","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=9698"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9709,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}