{"id":9921,"date":"2024-02-05T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T15:14:42","slug":"i-needed-two-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/i-needed-two-things\/","title":{"rendered":"I Needed Two Things"},"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\" \/>not *that* devoted to the future of air travel<\/li>\n<li>and wiggling it, just a little?<\/li>\n<li>not happy gargoyles<\/li>\n<li>multiple kinds of puppets, all operated by<\/li>\n<li>it would be a shining white box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 875 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I needed two things: fresh air, and time to think. If I could get out of this blasted horse costume I&#8217;d have both, so that became my priority. Without Big Dennis across my back, I stood a better chance of eluding Titania. I stepped backwards as fast as I could toward the corner, dragging Small Dennis along for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was about to say where the ninja-clowns keep their blimp plans!&#8221; Small Dennis whined.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well my dude, it turns out I&#8217;m <em>not *that* devoted to the future of air travel<\/em>\u00a0espionage.&#8221; I tried to stand up, but the horse costume didn&#8217;t release and I was still attached to Small Dennis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not all about you, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was getting really frustrated at still being tethered in close proximity to Small Dennis&#8217;s sweaty naked bum. &#8220;I need to get out of here. Can you try grabbing the zipper <em>and wiggling it, just a little?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No? Don&#8217;t you want&#8211;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I want doesn&#8217;t matter. I&#8217;m on a mission. Something I thought you would understand. But I guess everyone was right at the Academy. They always said your family was a bunch of gargoyles, and <em>not happy gargoyles<\/em> either!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was news to me. I didn&#8217;t remember ever being called a gargoyle. The closest insult I could recall was when we were compared to <em>multiple kinds of puppets, all operated by<\/em> feral chimps. Which, you may note, is nothing whatsoever like a bunch of gargoyles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m on a mission of my own, Small Dennis.&#8221; That wasn&#8217;t exactly true, but if he believed me it would get me out of this humid tube of corduroy and give me a chance to decide whether the bigger threat lay in the clown-ninjas and their hot tub parties, or in their plans to abscond with all the airship&#8217;s bananas. I didn&#8217;t know where I would go to do my thinking, but wherever it was, <em>it would be a shining white box<\/em> of clean fresh air compared to my current surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to get a hand free to jiggle the zipper before Titania rounded the corner and found us.<\/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>not *that* devoted to the future of air travel and wiggling it, just a little? not happy gargoyles multiple kinds of puppets, all operated by it would be a shining white box Tune in next time part 875 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I needed two things: fresh air, and time to think. 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