Hans looks evenly at Joffun.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what I need from you,\u201d says Hans, \u201cis for you to go up and find this Mr. Gulley and his wolf. Make sure that the chains on that wolf do not fail. I am hardly the only svart-elf who can bind these monsters, you know. When I am gone, you shall all have to step up and face the task. And I have heard good things of your work on bird spittling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mood in the room suddenly shifts. Joffun is suddenly avid, joyous. \u201cYou have?\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s like having the Krampus praise your fashion sense, or Thon-Gul X admire your skill as an online tank. It\u2019s not so much a reward for victory as a sneaky unexpected pump to the validation chamber of your heart. The categories of Joffun\u2019s brain all suddenly go askew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hans looks evenly at Joffun. \u201cSo what I need from you,\u201d says Hans, \u201cis for you to go up and find this Mr. Gulley and his wolf. Make sure that the chains on that wolf do not fail. I am hardly the only svart-elf who can bind these monsters, you know. When I am gone, […]<\/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-2497","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\/2497","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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6578,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/6578"}],"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=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}