The day ends and the night comes; the night ends and the day comes; Saul wakes comfortably against the broad fur of the wolf.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will never stop,\u201d says Saul. \u201cYou know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pokes thoughtfully at a sleeping civilian attach\u00e9.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ll just keep attacking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fenris bounds up to stand on top of the natural history museum. It looks around. \u201cI think they will become used to me,\u201d he says, \u201cin a year or two. They will laugh. They will say, \u2018we were so silly, panicking over a single giant wolf.\u2019 Then another year or two later they will attempt to integrate me into their world order. We will be united nations, and wolf! By the time they realize their mistake they will already be too busy worshipping me to care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saul raises an eyebrow at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bad wolf that wants worship,\u201d he says. \u201cHans\u2019ll come and \u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
Saul hesitates in confusion. He waves it off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am worthy of it,\u201d Fenris says, curling up neatly on top of the museum and licking itself in a fashion that we will not further discuss, even though in some respects it is a more intellectually interesting process than it was for Skoll. \u201cOne day there shall be no Earth, you know, but only me; no sun, but only me; if I am good, and clever, and strong, and can breathe in space, then there shall be no galaxies, but only Fenris, and possibly an abandoned floating bunch of boots.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that what people worship?\u201d says Saul.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a panulfic heresy,\u201d grins Fenris. It shakes its head. It stares up at the sky. \u201cLet\u2019s go,\u201d he says. \u201cLet\u2019s go take on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Only, he doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t get the chance!<\/p>\n
It\u2019s taken a while to boot up, since they\u2019d lost the nithrid who\u2019d been meant to supply its power; but there\u2019s a Lethal Magnet at the heart of the Lethal Magnet School for Wayward Youth \u2014 an ulf<\/em>lei\u00f0arsteinn <\/em>or ulfrafmagnsteinn, <\/em>a wolf-magnet \u2014 and it has finally finished turning on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The day ends and the night comes; the night ends and the day comes; Saul wakes comfortably against the broad fur of the wolf. \u201cThey will never stop,\u201d says Saul. \u201cYou know.\u201d He pokes thoughtfully at a sleeping civilian attach\u00e9. \u201cThey\u2019ll just keep attacking.\u201d Fenris bounds up to stand on top of the natural history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-6803","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\/2015\/01\/Scissors-Large.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","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=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}