\u201cGreat,\u201d sighs Tom, as the forests of Venus spin by underneath them. Jane floats gently up to where she can position herself in her seat. \u201cJust great.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you sight him from here?\u201d Jane asks, but Tom just pounds his head into the dashboard and then rests it there.<\/p>\n
\u201cStupid,\u201d he says. \u201cStupid. Stupid. Stupid. Worthless snake-DNA human-killing boy goddamn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTom,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy couldn\u2019t it have been someone else, Jane?\u201d he asks, and then, in almost complete contradiction to that: \u201cI think I must deserve it. I must deserve to be alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cGreat,\u201d sighs Tom, as the forests of Venus spin by underneath them. Jane floats gently up to where she can position herself in her seat. \u201cJust great.\u201d \u201cCan you sight him from here?\u201d Jane asks, but Tom just pounds his head into the dashboard and then rests it there. \u201cStupid,\u201d he says. \u201cStupid. Stupid. Stupid. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-4","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/icon_Seraph_2_a.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","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=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}