Saul and his puppy play together in the fields.<\/p>\n
He grows up.<\/p>\n
He fixes the tractor. He rebinds the limbs of the great round-bellied field demon. He leaves some milk and shoes out at night for the cobblers to fix.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the kind of life one gets, a svart-elf among svart-elves, in their fields and farms and caves and palaces underneath the earth.<\/p>\n
\u201cMother,\u201d he says, one day, \u201cI think that I am working harder than I must, simply to not be bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re good,\u201d she tells him. <\/em>\u201cIf you\u2019re good, if you\u2019re good enough<\/em>, then the sugar fairies will come and they will carry you away.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c. . . oh,\u201d Saul says.<\/p>\n He goes back to work.<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saul and his puppy play together in the fields. He grows up. He fixes the tractor. He rebinds the limbs of the great round-bellied field demon. He leaves some milk and shoes out at night for the cobblers to fix. That\u2019s the kind of life one gets, a svart-elf among svart-elves, in their fields and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-1","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Gold-from-a-Wolf.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6704,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/6704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Goodness\/Badness Report: SAUL<\/span><\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t
Good<\/strong><\/h3>\n