I do know that somewhere under the world, if he hasn\u2019t died yet, there\u2019s a dwarf named Joffun and he\u2019s holding a genuine miracle in his hand.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a miracle of the old world, and not the new one, but maybe \u2014<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s still valid. Maybe it still matters.<\/p>\n
Maybe it still counts<\/em>.<\/p>\n If it does, then it\u2019s all right, I guess. If it does, then I guess there\u2019s still hope for us, under the surfaces of things; and maybe there\u2019s even everything that ever was in that, in the palm of his hand, still in there \u2014 still contained <\/em>there, like the jewel in a monster\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n Joffun knew the end was coming, after all. He\u2019d tried to stop it. He cut out the heart of a young boy named Edmund Gulley and he\u2019d tried to use it to save people, but it didn\u2019t, you see. It wasn\u2019t the miracle that he wanted. At least, it sure wasn\u2019t, back then.<\/p>\n He got arrested for assault and attempted murder, what with ripping a young boy\u2019s heart out, instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I do know that somewhere under the world, if he hasn\u2019t died yet, there\u2019s a dwarf named Joffun and he\u2019s holding a genuine miracle in his hand. It\u2019s a miracle of the old world, and not the new one, but maybe \u2014 Maybe it\u2019s still valid. Maybe it still matters. Maybe it still counts. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-8-33","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Icon_Jewel_NoBG.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","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=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}