\u201cYes,\u201d says Tom. \u201cYes, he does. You can\u2019t, Linus. You can\u2019t. I will never forgive you if you go after him and get the Devil cleaned out of you. You can\u2019t. <\/i>It\u2019s wrong<\/i>. Don\u2019t you get it? It\u2019s wrong. You can\u2019t let him. You are supposed to be exactly who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
At this the antichrist hesitates.<\/p>\n
He picks Tom up. He cradles the human in his arms.<\/p>\n
The black dog pants. The black dog whuffles. The black dog leaves its muddy footprints all over the just-cleaned floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s get you home,\u201d says the future Mr. Enemy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t be trapped this way forever, will I?\u201d says Tom.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course not,\u201d the antichrist says.<\/p>\n
He walks forbidden paths with Tom, whose tears sizzle in the heat.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course not,\u201d agrees Tom, crying Friedman. \u201cI\u2019ll get out of this trap. Six months tops. You\u2019ll see!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cYes,\u201d says Tom. \u201cYes, he does. You can\u2019t, Linus. You can\u2019t. I will never forgive you if you go after him and get the Devil cleaned out of you. You can\u2019t. It\u2019s wrong. Don\u2019t you get it? It\u2019s wrong. You can\u2019t let him. You are supposed to be exactly who you are.\u201d At this the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stomping-the-world-round-chapter-5","series-stwr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Square-Linus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","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=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6300,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions\/6300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}