{"id":9975,"date":"2024-03-06T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T13:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=9975"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:34:40","slug":"id-learned-to-tune-out-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/id-learned-to-tune-out-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Learned to Tune Out Exhaustion"},"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\" \/>weird cotton candy grapes<\/li>\n<li>how many dollars a live yeti could be sold for<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOo, yeah. Robots.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>find you a new cloak<\/li>\n<li>dark and sexy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tune in next time part 884 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/tune-in-next-time\/\">Click Here for Earlier Installments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d learned to tune out exhaustion over the years, so it took a moment of deliberate reflection to assess my current state. Yeah, I was borderline delirious with lack of sleep. And, I was ravenously hungry. Functioning without nourishment is another skill one develops in the spy biz, but the key is to focus on the task at hand and deny your body&#8217;s basic physical imperatives, so now that I&#8217;d considered food I could think of nothing else. Alarmingly, the thing I craved was the <em>weird cotton candy grapes<\/em> they had in the commissary at Enigma Fortress. But perhaps that wasn&#8217;t so strange. My memories of my time in the Paradoxica Mountains were fond ones. That frozen landscape \u00a0seemed a place where I could be happy, especially if I didn&#8217;t have to be in command of the garrison. I might find out <em>how many dollars a live yeti could be sold for<\/em>. I might find a place to settle down with Tessa and\/or her many robot duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>Small Dennis said, <em>&#8220;Oo, yeah. Robots.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea how much I&#8217;d said out loud. If I couldn&#8217;t keep my shit together better than that, leaving the spy game wasn&#8217;t going to be optional. I chanced a look at Fleur. She was smiling. That always makes me nervous, but it looked like a kind smile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could tell the captain to change course,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Drop you off at Enigma Fortress in a day or two, which gives us time to <em>find you a new cloak<\/em>, something <em>dark and sexy<\/em>.&#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>weird cotton candy grapes how many dollars a live yeti could be sold for \u201cOo, yeah. Robots.\u201d find you a new cloak dark and sexy Tune in next time part 884 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click Here for Earlier Installments I&#8217;d learned to tune out exhaustion over the years, so it took a moment of deliberate reflection [&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":[91,342,305,403,534],"class_list":["post-9975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stichomancy-prompts","category-writing-prompts","tag-bonus-points","tag-food","tag-robot","tag-tune-in-next-time","tag-yeti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975","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=9975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9980,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9975\/revisions\/9980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}