It\u2019s probably less than half a minute before she\u2019s in the gun emplacement in the bell tower. It feels like it took her half her life.<\/p>\n
She kicks on the anti-magnet. She boots up the nithrid absorption machine. She swings the sky whitener around whole-bodied, holds its grips in her hands, slips her feet into its pedals, and fires into the oncoming storm.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not a person, right? It\u2019s not violence. <\/em>It\u2019s just a storm. You can shoot the weather, it\u2019s OK <\/em>to shoot the weather<\/em> \u2014<\/p>\n It\u2019s not OK! She shrieks. It\u2019s not OK! It\u2019s not OK!<\/p>\n Her spirit defocuses again. She is gasping. Her pores are bleeding. She tries frantically to not<\/em> have shot at the nithrid, over and over tries to exert her power to not have done that,<\/em> but the deed is already done.<\/p>\n There is a viscous wound of clarity in the middle of the sky.<\/p>\n I\u2019m just anthropomorphizing, <\/em>she thinks. It\u2019s not alive. It\u2019s not a person. Only,<\/em> it\u2019s<\/em> screaming<\/em> \u2014<\/p>\n Saul, incidentally, is terrible at being a saint.<\/p>\n \u201cDang,\u201d Bethany says, as the lightning comes down for her. \u201cI\u2019m worse\u2019n Saul.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s probably less than half a minute before she\u2019s in the gun emplacement in the bell tower. It feels like it took her half her life. She kicks on the anti-magnet. She boots up the nithrid absorption machine. She swings the sky whitener around whole-bodied, holds its grips in her hands, slips her feet into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-2","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hat_3a_nobg.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548","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=5548"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6092,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5548\/revisions\/6092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5548"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}