Emily walks past a cow. It\u2019s got a crown. She nods. It moos.<\/p>\n
Emily speaks with a snake for a little while.<\/p>\n
At the edge of the chaos she kills a fine feathered coat-beast and she puts on a fine feathered coat.<\/p>\n
She walks to the waste, with its great sticky trees, and she scuffs the dirt with her toes: here a down arrow. Here a left arrow. Here an up arrow, and here a right.<\/p>\n
She sets up a stone, that’s all you need, you don’t need a PlayStation if you’ve learned the dance.<\/p>\n
She turns the staring skull to face away.<\/p>\n
And this is how the world begins: when the last bit of fear in Emily settles, and the feathers of her coat; and she closes her eyes, and opens them, pure and clean; and she grinds a power button into the dirt, and she presses it, with the horny calloused tip of her right big toe.<\/p>\n
Lightning flashes. Thunder rumbles. The world powers on like a PlayStation fan.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could die here,\u201d whispers a silver snake. \u201cThey could fall on you. The world could bury you alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
There’s no turning back now,<\/em> warns a passing crow.<\/p>\n And the jaguars go around and around the Earth, in the cold and the airless awfulness of space; and even in this last moment of that pain they do not know that an Emily has come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emily walks past a cow. It\u2019s got a crown. She nods. It moos. Emily speaks with a snake for a little while. At the edge of the chaos she kills a fine feathered coat-beast and she puts on a fine feathered coat. She walks to the waste, with its great sticky trees, and she scuffs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"series":[50],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vidars-boot-chapter-99-epilogue","series-vidars-boot"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Jaguar_Cold_Chained_3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019","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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7022,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions\/7022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/books.hitherby.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}