{"id":1259,"date":"2026-03-22T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2026-03-15T06:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T06:10:47","slug":"chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-061","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/22\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-061\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8 As Good as Gold 061"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/21\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-060\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page61 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/23\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>gently letting it cascade back into the palm of her hand. She\u2019s too preoccupied with thoughts to notice the time passing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello!\u201d says NutJob, with a genuine note of surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh! Dave! Hello!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t expect to see <em>you<\/em> here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear quickly puts the necklace into the pocket of her jeans. Switching into softly softly mode, she says, \u201cI was able to finish early after the cavalry left. I was telling Franklin about the news. How was your day?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His face beams as they start to slowly walk along Common Garden Street, and NutJob launches into full geek mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that side project, those standby generators that Faraday and I have been working on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUh huh,\u201d she says politely, wondering if she could have chosen a simpler topic of conversation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell they work! Not the mini turbines on the roof, there wasn\u2019t enough wind for them to produce any viable electricity. But the portable hydroelectric generators. They work! We had power. We used two of them and we had the presses running on electricity. Last time there was a power cut we had to crank the presses by hand. We worked until midnight, did half the print run, missed the distribution deadline and it was Monday before any of the outlying towns had their copies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear knew all about last time. The distribution network relies on horses so she\u2019s aware of who does what. This time around she\u2019s interested to know how NutJob and Faraday managed to move hydroelectric power generators. The last time she saw the prototypes, they were the size of household stoves!<\/p>\n<p>At the same time she\u2019s wondering about the wisdom of pursuing this line of enquiry, because she really doesn\u2019t want to have a science lecture in the middle of the street, late on a Friday evening!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell me more,\u201d she says cautiously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLoad balancers,\u201d says NutJob \u201cwe have to figure out how to balance things!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/21\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-060\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page61 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/23\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page61 \u2013 Next gently letting it cascade back into the palm of her hand. She\u2019s too preoccupied with thoughts to notice the time passing. \u201cHello!\u201d says NutJob, with a genuine note of surprise. \u201cOh! Dave! Hello!\u201d \u201cI didn\u2019t expect to see you here.\u201d KristalClear quickly puts the necklace into the pocket of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/22\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-061\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 8 As Good as Gold 061&#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\/1259"}],"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=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}