Some time later.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh,\u201d says the wolf, startling awake. Its ears swivel. \u201cI woke up. I hadn\u2019t expected that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
It sits up. It looks around.<\/p>\n
Everything is devastated. Everything is an awful ruin. The sun gleams off melted window-glass. It is peaceful and still and no birds sing.<\/p>\n
It looks around a little more.<\/p>\n
A dusty sunbeam shows Saul. He is sleeping against the tail of the wolf. His belly is very round and he is glowing, just a bit, because he has been eating nuclear explosions.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh,\u201d says the wolf. \u201cOh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Its brain sends conflicting signals. It tries very hard to stay still. It must not lick the boy. It must not jump on the boy. It must not wag \u2014<\/p>\n
It cannot help it.<\/p>\n
It wags its tail. Its tail wags itself. Circumstances wag Fenris\u2019 tail all about. <\/em>Saul bounces up and down and is flailed around.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is ridiculous,\u201d says the wolf. \u201cSaul, you look like a musician.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Saul mumbles.<\/p>\n The wolf struggles around to where it can see Saul. This hurts. It winces. It goes to lick its leg.<\/p>\n Result: failure!<\/p>\n \u201cIf you gnaw those bandages off,\u201d Saul mutters, creaking open his eyes, \u201cI am going to put a cone on you.\u201d<\/p>\n Fenris considers this. Then it sighs. It stretches out.<\/p>\n \u201cYou left,\u201d Fenris says. \u201cYou left, Saul.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDid I?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou reincarnated.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI just changed my hat,\u201d protests Saul, who is still pretty much asleep.<\/p>\n \u201cBah,\u201d says Fenris sulkily. It does not have proper tear ducts. It gnaws on a nearby building. \u201cYou should have come back sooner. I got adopted by a mean family that tied me up in the basement and threw boots at me.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHaha,\u201d laughs Saul.<\/p>\n \u201cHaha?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s over now,\u201d says Saul. \u201cNow we can live happily ever after.\u201d<\/p>\n The wolf is coming to eat the world. The Agency\u2019s coming to kill the wolf.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd never,\u201d says Saul, \u201cever again, to die.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some time later. \u201cOh,\u201d says the wolf, startling awake. Its ears swivel. \u201cI woke up. I hadn\u2019t expected that to happen.\u201d It sits up. It looks around. Everything is devastated. Everything is an awful ruin. The sun gleams off melted window-glass. It is peaceful and still and no birds sing. It looks around a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-19","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\/6795","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=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6796"}],"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=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}