Alerts travel up their hierarchy. A response organizes. Soldiers prepare themselves tensely. Jane reads the sun-eating wolf a story, but she isn\u2019t happy about it. She plays tug-of-war with the sun-eating wolf over a bit of knotted rope that is also on fire. She scolds Skoll for being Skoll and gives Skoll a treat for being Skoll and is in general very bad at providing a nurturing home environment. Then she goes to bed. Agency social workers strike!<\/p>\n
They raid Jane\u2019s home in the middle of the night. They seize Jane about the waist. They carry her off.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d says Jane. \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
She stretches her arms towards the house. She yells, as if in slow motion, \u201cRose-bud . . .\u201d<\/p>\n
This is because she has not quite grasped yet that this is not a game.<\/p>\n
Hiring clowns to impersonate activist social workers and raid their house in the middle of the night is just exactly the kind of thing that Martin would probably do.<\/p>\n
Skoll twitches an ear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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