{"id":1109,"date":"2026-03-07T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:57:42","slug":"chapter-5-missing041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/07\/chapter-5-missing041\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 5 Missing041"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/06\/chapter-5-missing040\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page41 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/08\/chapter-6-incursion043\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t! There used to be car factories in Speke, and Halewood, and Ellesmere Port. By the time motor cars became obsolete, most of those jobs had already gone. Nothing took their place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CandiCrush sums it up by saying, \u201cthe charming people left, and the rogues took over. If you couldn\u2019t afford to leave, you got sucked into the system. There\u2019s a small enclave in Chester that we\u2019re trying to bring on side. They\u2019re not a fully fledged part of Worringfolk, but they\u2019re not Cedyrn either! They don\u2019t speak Welsh and so they have little option but to cooperate with the Wor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;o&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cHello mate! SpudGunn\u2019s the name. Used to be a potato farmer before I got clobbered. What about you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMickeyWarr. Until yesterday I worked on a goat farm. Today, I\u2019m supposed to be eloping with my girlfriend Angel!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoney trapped eh? Same thing happened to me. Her name was Amber, she worked in a tavern, vanished the night I ended up in a barn!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeriously?\u201d says MickeyWarr.<\/p>\n<p>As it dawns on him what\u2019s going on he puts his head in his hands. He pauses, and then abruptly raises his head, \u201chow do we get out of here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want to leave?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought about leaving, it\u2019s just that \u2026 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho\u2019s the head of the escape committee?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are others who want to escape, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, of course, but \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen there\u2019s an escape committee, right? Who\u2019s the head?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think you understan\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, I\u2019m now the head of the escape committee. Who else can we count on?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/06\/chapter-5-missing040\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page41 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/08\/chapter-6-incursion043\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page41 \u2013 Next \u201cThey don\u2019t! There used to be car factories in Speke, and Halewood, and Ellesmere Port. By the time motor cars became obsolete, most of those jobs had already gone. Nothing took their place.\u201d CandiCrush sums it up by saying, \u201cthe charming people left, and the rogues took over. 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