Helissent looks at him. Then she sighs. She puts a hand on his face. She runs it down to his hand and squeezes it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will come with you,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you like.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
He pushes her gently away. Then he gives her a rictus of a grin.<\/p>\n
He is thinking: what is the worst that can happen? If he kills me then I cannot be eaten by Fenris Wolf.<\/em><\/p>\n He goes out.<\/p>\n Joffun looks up at him. Joffun makes a hmph<\/em> noise and looks back down.<\/p>\n Mr. Gulley sits down against the opposite pillar of the bridge.<\/p>\n He says, \u201cSo.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThief,\u201d mutters Joffun.<\/p>\n Mr. Gulley picks up a pebble. He tosses it. It clonks off of Joffun\u2019s shoulder and falls down. Joffun looks up in outrage.<\/p>\n Mr. Gulley grins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Helissent looks at him. Then she sighs. She puts a hand on his face. She runs it down to his hand and squeezes it. \u201cI will come with you,\u201d she says. \u201cIf you like.\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d he says. He pushes her gently away. Then he gives her a rictus of a grin. He is thinking: what […]<\/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-2505","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\/2505","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=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6575,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/6575"}],"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=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}