{"id":1281,"date":"2026-03-28T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:04:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:04:33","slug":"chapter-9-red-in-the-face069","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/28\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face069\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9 Red in the Face069"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/27\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face068\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page69 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/29\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face070\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>herds of camels roaming free. Until the desert turned to sea when climate change became worse. East Anglia Sands in the North Sea was once habitable land you know!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the first SlenderWolf?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cthe one with a copper coloured eye and a blue eye?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all we have time for now. I have things to do,\u201d says Franklin. She gestures towards the clock on the far wall, \u201cand you two should be at work!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A little intoxicated by Franklin\u2019s talk of wolves, NutJob spends the whole evening chatting about it whilst he and Faraday are assembling custom made alternators. By 21:00 Faraday is happy to show him out and say good night. Stepping through the door he waves good bye and says \u201cmust dash\u201d, then gleefully turns for home.<\/p>\n<p>As he joyfully bounces along the cobbled streets he scans every side street, and every doorway, imagining that there\u2019s a wolf watching him.<\/p>\n<p>NutJob soon reaches the crossroads where King Street becomes Broadland High Street. This is where Willowdene Road branches off to the south west, leading to the popular residential corner of Lancaster. If NutJob waits here, looking north west towards the River Lune and the Garrison, there\u2019s a fifty fifty chance that KristalClear will be on her way home about now.<\/p>\n<p>He sees her as she\u2019s approaching Broadland Park High School. Eager to tell her what he\u2019s learnt about Ulverston, he sets off down the hill as she\u2019s walking up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFranklin explained,\u201d he exclaims excitedly, \u201call about the name, and how the wolves came back, and everything!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their route home overlaps from here, but only for a few hundred metres. NutJob is trying to make the best use of the short time available, and is effectively dominating the chat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re very lively tonight,\u201d she says, \u201cdid they put too much sugar in your tea?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slightly puzzled he says, \u201cI don\u2019t take sugar!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instinctively, KristalClear begins to reach out with her right hand intending to place it on NutJob\u2019s left shoulder and<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/27\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face068\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page69 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/29\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face070\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page69 \u2013 Next herds of camels roaming free. Until the desert turned to sea when climate change became worse. East Anglia Sands in the North Sea was once habitable land you know!\u201d \u201cAnd the first SlenderWolf?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cthe one with a copper coloured eye and a blue eye?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s all we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/03\/28\/chapter-9-red-in-the-face069\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 9 Red in the Face069&#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\/1281"}],"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=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}