Tom opens the door. He comes home. He looks from Bertram to Lucy and he frowns.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh?\u201d she asks. She turns.<\/p>\n
He is displaying an extraordinary variety of expressions. Finally he goes and he kneels beside Bertram Gulley\u2019s corpse.<\/p>\n
\u201cIgnore that,\u201d she says. \u201cBoy. Let\u2019s play rock-paper-scissors.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he shakes his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a fair game,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Tom is staring into Bertram\u2019s eyes. He is frowning. She walks over. She slaps him. He catches her hand. He flings her over. He lands kneeling on her stomach with one hand on her throat. \u201cI know you,\u201d he says. \u201cWe met in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pulsates. She diffuses into a black cloud of malice. She blasts him back against the wall.<\/p>\n
She holds him there.<\/p>\n
She recoalesces. She flips up her umbrella one-handed. She levels its tip at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were saying?\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Tom\u2019s eyes blaze. For a moment, he is almost a science adventurer again. He sees how to do it. Knee her in the stomach. Take the umbrella. Thumb it to anti-aerated weaponry<\/i>. Stop her from throwing any rock-paper-scissors moves \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tom opens the door. He comes home. He looks from Bertram to Lucy and he frowns. \u201cOh?\u201d she asks. She turns. He is displaying an extraordinary variety of expressions. Finally he goes and he kneels beside Bertram Gulley\u2019s corpse. \u201cIgnore that,\u201d she says. \u201cBoy. Let\u2019s play rock-paper-scissors.\u201d But he shakes his head. \u201cIt\u2019s a fair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-4274","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\/05\/Lucy_Shadow.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","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=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6292,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/6292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}