The goat is difficult to aim but still Hans manages.<\/p>\n
The lady of winter is aware that this is a bargain, and of its price.<\/p>\n
Thus Vaenwode finds his path blighted, again and again, by sudden snowfall; he slides and his gait grows stuttering on slicks of ice; he cannot walk the public roads, but must slip through the hedgerows and run on tended soil, where winter is uncertain if it should strike.<\/p>\n
\u2014 after all, it would do no good to please Hans and earn her freedom by freezing Vaenwode, if the complaints of other svart-elves then displease<\/em> him and he finds it better after all to bind her back.<\/p>\n The goat has no such fine sensibilities.<\/p>\n It tears through a line of trees like a razored wire. It is slowed only by the sharpness of its hooves, which occasionally mire it down into the solid stone. It tumbles towards Vaenwode like an apocalypse; and behind it, coming fast, is Hans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The goat is difficult to aim but still Hans manages. The lady of winter is aware that this is a bargain, and of its price. Thus Vaenwode finds his path blighted, again and again, by sudden snowfall; he slides and his gait grows stuttering on slicks of ice; he cannot walk the public roads, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-1798","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\/09\/Winter-and-Goat.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6663,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/6663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}