His saran wrap \u2014<\/p>\n
It clings to a tree in the cleanly world behind them.<\/p>\n
It is only scarcely conscious. It has only the vaguest notion that a ray sent seven hundred years\u2019 distance by the Warlord Thon-Gul X is hitting it square-on from the depths of space. It does not know what it means that this terrible needle of decohesion energy threatens to overwhelm it.<\/p>\n
It only knows, as it has always known, that it must cling.<\/p>\n
It must hold to itself, and keep on holding.<\/p>\n
And the warlord Thon-Gul X is lamenting. He weeps and wails in his distant palace, drowned in its endless starless blue.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf only it did not thus cling!\u201d cries the wicked warlord; if only!<\/em><\/p>\n But enemies endure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" His saran wrap \u2014 It clings to a tree in the cleanly world behind them. It is only scarcely conscious. It has only the vaguest notion that a ray sent seven hundred years\u2019 distance by the Warlord Thon-Gul X is hitting it square-on from the depths of space. It does not know what it means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-25","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Space_Chained_Fade.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","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=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7006,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}