Someone is screaming.<\/p>\n
Who is he? He can\u2019t remember. He is someone, who is screaming.<\/p>\n
There is a transparent dog that is panting. It is calling him to the paths where only bad dogs go.<\/p>\n
Something is missing<\/em>.<\/p>\n His stomach rumbles. There was a mop. There was a squeegee \u2014<\/p>\n He closes his eyes. He staggers towards the Lethal Magnet School for Wayward Youth. He can\u2019t find <\/em>it.<\/p>\n \u201cI am Linus Evans,\u201d he says. Wrong. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cFriedman.\u201d<\/p>\n Wrong.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI am \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n He can\u2019t find it.<\/p>\n He is bleeding heavily. A bomb has gone off in his stomach. It is leaking from his orifices. He<\/em> is leaking from his orifices.<\/p>\n He cannot really understand why it is he remains alive.<\/p>\n Oh God,<\/em> he thinks, and at least that thought still hurts him. He clings to that, like a thin film of antichrist atop the emptiness. It hurts him. He is still blasphemous, at least. He is still unholy. Oh, God.<\/em><\/p>\n He is empty.<\/p>\n He is somebody\u2019s enemy. He clings to that. He is somebody\u2019s enemy.<\/p>\n He is Mr. <\/em>Enemy.<\/p>\n He is lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone is screaming. Who is he? He can\u2019t remember. He is someone, who is screaming. There is a transparent dog that is panting. It is calling him to the paths where only bad dogs go. Something is missing. His stomach rumbles. There was a mop. There was a squeegee \u2014 He closes his eyes. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-5881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-14","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Icon_PBJ.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","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=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5982,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions\/5982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}