{"id":1273,"date":"2026-03-24T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:58:21","slug":"chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-063","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/24\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-063\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 8 As Good as Gold 063"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/23\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page63 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/25\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-064\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>Though she\u2019s slightly taken aback and wonders what\u2019s actually wrong. She looks up, but there\u2019s nothing dangling from the sky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat necklace! You can\u2019t wear jewellery like that when you\u2019re riding a horse. You can\u2019t wear jewellery of any sort when you\u2019re in the Garrison!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Puzzled, and genuinely wanting to know more, KristalClear sheepishly says, \u201cyou\u2019re wearing earrings, so am I, isn\u2019t that allowed?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, simple stud earrings are permitted, and nothing else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd a watch?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a Garrison issue watch. Not a pocket watch with a dangly chain. And this one has a leather strap. Yours is fine too. Simple and functional. The rule is \u2018no dangly things\u2019 which is probably the same one as at school. What exactly did Mr Rafone say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh he wasn\u2019t talking to me. One of the weird boys came in wearing a wolf\u2019s tooth on a leather bootlace around his neck. We all thought it was Mr Rafone just being picky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGarrison rule. Engineering rule. Health and safety rule. I\u2019m not surprised if it\u2019s a school rule too! You don\u2019t want weird boys claiming to be Pagan wizards and casting spells with their little dangly things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear giggles, as she carefully removes her new gold necklace.<\/p>\n<p>As they walk down to the stables they start chatting about their earrings. They\u2019re made with Meirionydd gold from the mine in Dolgellau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarried personnel can also wear a plain gold wedding ring if they want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear looks at CandiCrush\u2019s left hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not married!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, neither am I!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re young! Plenty of time. I spend half my life at sea. I just haven\u2019t met the right man yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow old <em>are<\/em> you? If you don\u2019t mind me asking?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/23\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-062\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page63 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/25\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-064\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page63 \u2013 Next Though she\u2019s slightly taken aback and wonders what\u2019s actually wrong. She looks up, but there\u2019s nothing dangling from the sky. \u201cThat necklace! You can\u2019t wear jewellery like that when you\u2019re riding a horse. You can\u2019t wear jewellery of any sort when you\u2019re in the Garrison!\u201d Puzzled, and genuinely wanting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/24\/chapter-8-as-good-as-gold-063\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 8 As Good as Gold 063&#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\/1273"}],"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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}