{"id":1105,"date":"2026-03-05T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2026-03-01T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:12:11","slug":"chapter-5-missing039","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/05\/chapter-5-missing039\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5 Missing039"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/04\/chapter-5-missing038\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page39 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/06\/chapter-5-missing040\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cSystems of government,\u201d says BarmyWaffle, \u201cif you can call the Wor Council a government!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficially, ThunderCloud is the leader of the Wor Council,\u201d notes CandiCrush, quickly adding, \u201cthough he behaves more like a Roman Emperor who controls everything. The Wor Council simply rubber stamps everything he says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BarmyWaffle continues, \u201cthey have no police force, no civil defence service, just pirates and militias. It\u2019s as if the Roman Empire evolved clumsily, missed out some of the steps, and promptly transformed into the Italian Mafia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why we have a Garrison,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cself defence! If we weren\u2019t able to defend ourselves they\u2019d take everything we own. Meirionydd has the same problem. They have a border with Worringfolk too. And they have a garrison. In Welsh theirs is called a Byddin. The Manx have a Sidooryn, and the Irish call theirs the L\u00e1igen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSurely Worringfolk has a police force,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cdidn\u2019t everything evolve from the England and Wales system before The Decimation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a tough one!\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201cBarmy is older than me, so he might know more, but basically the history is a bit of fact and a bit of guesswork. For hundreds of years we\u2019ve relied on defectors, and prisoners of war, to help us piece together a picture of what\u2019s happening inside Worringfolk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earnestly, BarmyWaffle says, \u201cthis is all a generalisation you understand, the communities along the River Mersey had some charming people and some tedious people. The ones who originally came from Mannin and Leinster went back home. The charming ones in the remaining population basically upped sticks and moved out. In all directions. Many of them came north to what is now Wolfland. When the vineyards first started to appear in Meirionydd many people chose to go there. That left an imbalance in Worringfolk, with lots of tedious people remaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they still had a police force, and law and order, didn\u2019t they?\u201d asks KristalClear, \u201cand a Garrison or whatever it was called back then?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/04\/chapter-5-missing038\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page39 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/06\/chapter-5-missing040\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page39 \u2013 Next \u201cSystems of government,\u201d says BarmyWaffle, \u201cif you can call the Wor Council a government!\u201d \u201cOfficially, ThunderCloud is the leader of the Wor Council,\u201d notes CandiCrush, quickly adding, \u201cthough he behaves more like a Roman Emperor who controls everything. The Wor Council simply rubber stamps everything he says.\u201d BarmyWaffle continues, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/05\/chapter-5-missing039\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 5 Missing039&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}