And the wolf is young and oddly docile in those early days of its captivity and Vaenwode imagines for a time that it will serve his family; that it will be loyal to them; that it will be an asset to his line.<\/p>\n
This he dreams for the enemy of Vaenwode; this he dreams for the enemy of the svarts:<\/p>\n
That perhaps it will be of use<\/em> to him, if only he keeps it tightly bound.<\/p>\n This he dreams, and this dream endures until the wolf learns the words to ask for freedom.<\/p>\n The look in its eyes when he says he cannot not free it; and more than that, that he will not <\/em>\u2014 it cuts through him. It haunts Vaenwode all his life’s remainder, until the very day he dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And the wolf is young and oddly docile in those early days of its captivity and Vaenwode imagines for a time that it will serve his family; that it will be loyal to them; that it will be an asset to his line. This he dreams for the enemy of Vaenwode; this he dreams for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-1878","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\/11\/Wolf_2b_Chained.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6644,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/6644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}