Mr. Gulley opens his mouth but can\u2019t find anything to say.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to go back to my life,\u201d Helissent says. \u201cI\u2019m going to give my lectures and write my articles and attend my conferences, and I\u2019m not going to be some sacred wife to some sacred wolf-gold husband, and if we do have a wolf-freeing kid or a wolf-killing kid, I\u2019m going to be my own ordinary mother, not some mother out of wolf-gold destiny. I don\u2019t feed it, I don\u2019t clean up after it, and if it b\u2014 my apologies.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looks at the wolf. \u201cIf you,<\/em>\u201d she says, changing the pronoun, \u201cbite me, I\u2019ll make an end to you myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Fenris\u2019 tail wags again, and the building shakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mr. Gulley opens his mouth but can\u2019t find anything to say. \u201cI\u2019m going to go back to my life,\u201d Helissent says. \u201cI\u2019m going to give my lectures and write my articles and attend my conferences, and I\u2019m not going to be some sacred wife to some sacred wolf-gold husband, and if we do have a […]<\/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-2456","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\/2456","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=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6590,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/6590"}],"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=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}