Lucy scowls.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u201d she says, \u201cthat\u2019s all very good, and you probably expect me to go away and let you have kids and raise them and name them after my sister, but I\u2019ll hardly \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d says Tom.<\/p>\n
There is something awful in his voice. It stops her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all already dead and gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo just kill me,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s OK. The humans will throng and live, or you\u2019ll kill them, or whatever, and it\u2019s all gone, and even stupid Bertram Gulley and his golden face\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 and Tom here kicks it \u2014<\/p>\n
\u201cJust kill me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucy scowls. \u201cWell,\u201d she says, \u201cthat\u2019s all very good, and you probably expect me to go away and let you have kids and raise them and name them after my sister, but I\u2019ll hardly \u2014\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d says Tom. There is something awful in his voice. It stops her. \u201cThey\u2019re all already dead and gone.\u201d \u201cWhat?\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"series":[5],"class_list":["post-4287","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_NoScroll_Top.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","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=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}