The wolf-magnet is a sudden, gutting end to Fenris\u2019 freedom. It is a sucker punch to the wolf\u2019s sense of autonomy in the world.<\/p>\n
There is no absolute frame of reference, so to drag someone is to pin them.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all just force. It\u2019s all the same!<\/p>\n
The wolf scrabbles. It tries to hold to its location.<\/p>\n
Result: failure!<\/p>\n
It goes skidding through the house and gardens of Erik Larger, who\u2019d never done anything to the wolf or to the Lethal Magnet School.<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t even larger than the wolf!<\/p>\n
The wolf skips skyward like a stone, falls back down heavily. It pins itself with its claws and its face is strained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaul,\u201d it says. \u201cSaul.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saul is doing little better.<\/p>\n
The magnet has grabbed him by his hat; it is pulling him; it drags the House of Hunger through Edmund\u2019s wolf-bond towards the school.<\/p>\n
\u201cSaul,\u201d pleads the wolf.<\/p>\n
It is still slipping.<\/p>\n
There are thirty-eight kilometers standing between the wolf and its death. It scrabbles, stretched out, like it\u2019s being pulled by a vacuum.<\/p>\n
Over the distant school looms the bootstrap, and Vidar\u2019s Boot.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The wolf-magnet is a sudden, gutting end to Fenris\u2019 freedom. It is a sucker punch to the wolf\u2019s sense of autonomy in the world. There is no absolute frame of reference, so to drag someone is to pin them. It\u2019s all just force. It\u2019s all the same! The wolf scrabbles. It tries to hold to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-20","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Icon_Wolf_v2b_noBG.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","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=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}