\u201cI\u2019m scared,\u201d Edmund says, quietly.<\/p>\n
The wolf doesn\u2019t answer him. It just licks his shoulder again and waits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI dreamt that I was chained to you,\u201d Edmund says. \u201cAnd that you grew, and it crushed me. It went tighter and tighter and then I popped.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wolf whines.<\/p>\n
He hides his face against it. \u201cI want to let you go,\u201d he says. \u201cWhy do I want to let you go?\u201d<\/p>\n
Softly, the wolf says, \u201cIt is natural.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll eat everything,\u201d protests Edmund.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot everything,\u201d says the wolf.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a very big cosmos,\u201d says the wolf. \u201cThe odds are against me. And I do not even know if I can breathe in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI\u2019m scared,\u201d Edmund says, quietly. The wolf doesn\u2019t answer him. It just licks his shoulder again and waits. \u201cI dreamt that I was chained to you,\u201d Edmund says. \u201cAnd that you grew, and it crushed me. It went tighter and tighter and then I popped.\u201d The wolf whines. He hides his face against it. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-2","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\/2294","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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/6620"}],"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=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}